CDC Study: Kentucky Has Highest Smoking Death Rate; Utah And Hawaii The Lowest
A new federal study shows Kentucky and West Virginia - where people traditionally smoke the most - have the highest death rates from smoking.
Published: January 22, 2009
ATLANTA (AP) - A new federal study shows Kentucky and West Virginia - where people traditionally smoke the most - have the highest death rates from smoking.
Utah and Hawaii have the lowest death rates according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The smoking death rate in Kentucky was about 371 deaths out of every 100,000 adults age 35 and older.
That was nearly one-and-a-half times higher than the national median of 263 per 100,000. And it was nearly three times the rate for Utah, which was 138 per 100,000.
The smoking death rates were calculated using death certificate data from the years 2000 through 2004, focusing on lung cancer and 18 other diseases caused by cigarette smoking.
The report is published this week in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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