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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

Cover TOBACCO IS KILLING (AND COSTING) US

A Report on Tobacco Use Rates, Smoking-Related Deaths,
and Smoking-Related Health Care Costs in West Virginia






CREDITS

Joe Manchin III
Governor

Martha Yeager Walker
Secretary, Department of Health and Human Resources

Chris Curtis, MPH
Acting Commissioner, Bureau for Public Health

Catherine Slemp, MD, MPH
Acting Medical Officer, Bureau for Public Health

Joe Barker, MPA
Director, Office of Epidemiology and Health Promotion

Daniel M. Christy, MPA
Director, Health Statistics Center

Bruce Adkins, MS, PA
Director, Tobacco Prevention Program

Eugenia Thoenen
Manager, Statistical Services Unit
Health Statistics Center

Statistical Staff
James Doria, Epidemiologist
Thomas N. Leonard, MS, Programmer/Analyst
Tom Light, Programmer
Philip Simmons, MS, Programmer/Analyst
Amy Wenmoth, MA, Data Analyst


The Health Statistics Center would like to acknowledge Dorothy P. Rice, ScD, Professor Emeritus, Institute for Health & Aging, University of California, and Jeffrey L. Fellows, PhD, Office of Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for their invaluable contributions to this report.

"Smoking remains the single most important preventable
cause of death in our society."

-former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop

For additional information, contact:
West Virginia Bureau for Public Health
West Virginia Tobacco Prevention Program
(304) 558-2939

Released August 2005


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Last updated September 12, 2006.

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Phone: 304-558-9100 or Email:dhhrvitalreg@wv.gov