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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