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Show Tobacco Use (Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey) Table 83. Smoking* Year Utah U.S. Low U.S. Median U.S. High 1988 14.7 14.7 24.3 34.2 1989 16.4 16.4 24.2 30.4 1990 16.8 16.8 22.7 29.1 1991 14.3 14.3 23.0 30.2 1992 15.6 15.6 22.2 30.5 1993 14.3 14.3 22.2 29.4 1994 15.7 15.0 22.6 29.1 1995 13.2 13.2 22.4 27.8 1996 15.9 15.9 23.5 31.7 1997 13.8 - 23.2 -- 1998 14.2 - -- -- *Percentage of persons over age 18 who have ever smoked 100 cigarettes and currently smoke regularly. Sources: Centers for Disease Control, BRFSS Online Prevalence Data Comparison. [Online] Available <http://www2.cdc.gov/nccdphp/brfss/...>. Utah Department of Health, Bureau of Health Promotion/Risk Reduction, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System__, Unpublished Reports: 1998; 1995,1994, 1993. Centers for Disease Control, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Behavioral Risk Factor Survey, 1986-90. Figure 35 The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are about 1.1 billion smokers in the world, about one-third of the global population aged 15 years and older. Of these, 500 million (the equivalent of ten times the total of all deaths in World War II) will be killed by tobacco if current patterns of smoking continue. Half of these (about the population of the United States) will die at middle-age--losing an average 20 to 25 years of life.48 In the United States, at least 400,000 deaths are attributed to cigarette smoking each year. About 10 million people in the U.S. have died from smoking-attributable causes-including lung and other cancers, heart disease, emphysema and other respiratory diseases-since the first Surgeon General's report on smoking and health in1964.49 ¦Utah BU.S. Low ? U.S. Median UU.S. High 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 Table 84. Current Smoker, Nationwide Median vs. Utah Percentage -1997 Tobacco use causes about one of every five deaths in the United States and is the single most preventable cause of death and disease in our nation.50 To that end, a Healthy People 2000 objective is to reduce cigarette smoking to a prevalence of no more than 15 percent among people aged 18 and older.51 Response: Yes Smoke every day Smoke every day 1 -20 cigarettes 21 -40 cigarettes Smoke every day 41 or more cigarettes Age Group Nationwide Utah Nationwide Utah Nationwide Utah Nationwide Utah 18-24 29.9 15.1 90.5 87.0 9.3 10.2 0.0 2.8 25-34 26.6 16.2 86.8 95.5 12.2 4.5 0.5 0.0 35-44 28.4 15.2 78.7 84.4 20.2 14.7 1.3 0.9 45-54 25.1 15.6 71.5 71.0 26.1 24.7 2.0 4.4 55-64 20.4 12.6 75.8 72.9 22.3 25.6 1.6 1.5 65+ 10.7 4.5 80.0 68.0 17.6 32.0 0.1 0.0 48 Centers for Disease Control, Facts About Access to Tobacco.... [Online] Available <http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/fact/minors.htm>. 49 Ibid. 50 Centers for Disease Control, Tobacco Use Prevention Program. [Online] Available <http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/osh/oshaag.htm>. 51 National Center for Health Statistics, Healthy People 2000 Review, 1998-99. [Online] Available <http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/data/hp2k99.pdf>, p. 60. 107 |
