 Message from the Commissioner Executive Summary Table of Contents Section I. Prevalence Section II. WV Cigarette Consumption Section III. Deaths in WV due to Smoking Section IV. Health Care Costs Related to Smoking SAMMEC References Credits |
The West Virginia Bureau for Public Health, Office of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, used the updated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention computer program “Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Morbidity, and Economic Costs” (SAMMEC 2004) and average annual vital statistics death data from 1999-2003 to calculate smoking-attributable deaths. Aggregated prevalence statistics for 1999-2003 were used to calculate average yearly county smoking rates. Data on the health care costs of smoking were calculated using two different economic models, developed by Vincent Miller et al. (1) and Leonard Miller et al. (2), applied to estimated 1998 health care expenditures for the state obtained from the Health Care Financing Administration (the most recent state-level data available at the time the report was prepared). Smokeless tobacco use was not addressed by SAMMEC or either economic model.
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