Antis make a big deal about how smoking causes Heart Disease and Heart Disease deaths.They use computer generated numbers fron studies to prove this.

The numbers below are NOT computer generated; people died, bodies were counted, and these numbers are what we have.

There are some interesting comparisons to be made!
SR=Smoking Rate
Note that both Colo and Wash DC have the same SR(20.4)
DC is 3rd on the list and Colo is 48th.

Must be all of the politicians in DC causing people to die.

New Jersey(SR 19.0) is 22nd, Alaska(SR 29.3-50% higher) is 46th.
I guess Alaskan smokers are just hardier.

New York(SR 22.3) is 9th.
Minn(SR 21.8) is 50th!!
Could this be due to the 'Hillary effect'?

Hawaii(SR 21.0) is 49th, Maryland(SR 22) is 20th.

Studies are cute; but,the bodies tell a different set of facts!!

If we presume that all smokers die from Heart Disease and that all Heart Disease deaths are smokers, we can make a comparison between states.
For instance; Miss(SR 27.3) would have 27,300 smokers per 100,000. If we divide that by the 310.3/100,000 HDDR, we get 1 death per 88 smokers.
DC(1/71),NY(1/84),Calif(1/75), Utah(1/70), all have much higher death rates.

Utah,with the lowest smoking rate in the country(SR 12.8),has a 22% higher death per smoker rate than Miss(SR27.3-100+% higher).
Gary K.


Heart Disease Death Rate per 100,000(2003)


% smokers(2002) / Deaths per Smoker / Rate
United States / 23.0 / 1/99 / 232.3

1 Mississippi /27.3 / 1/88 / 310.3

2 Oklahoma /26.6 / 1/89 / 300.1

3 District of Columbia /20.4 / 1/71 / 287.3

4 West Virginia / 28.3 / 1/99 / 284.6

5 Alabama / 24.4 / 1/87 / 281.7

6 Kentucky / 32.6 / 1/118 / 275.9

7 Louisiana /23.9 / 1/87 / 274.2

8 Tennessee / 27.8 / 1/102 / 273.4

9 New York / 22.3 / 1/84 / 266.0

10 Missouri / 26.5 / 1/101 / 262.9

11 Arkansas / 26.3 / 1/102 / 258.4

12 Michigan / 24.2 / 1/95 / 254.0

13 Georgia / 23.3 / 1/93 / 251.8

14 Ohio / 26.6 / 1/107 / 247.9

15 Indiana / 27.7 / 1/113 / 246.3

16 Delaware / 24.7 / 1/102 / 243.1

17 Nevada / 26.0 / 1/107 / 242.6

18 Pennsylvania / 24.5 / 1/101 / 241.8

19 Texas / 22.9 / 1/96 / 237.8


20 Maryland / 22.0 / 1/93 / 235.6

21 Illinois / 22.8 / 1/97 / 235.1

22 New Jersey / 19.0 / 1/81 / 234.8

23 South Carolina / 26.5 / 1/113 / 234.5

24 North Carolina / 26.2 / 1/113 / 231.9

25 Rhode Island / 22.4 / 1/98 / 227.7

26 California / 16.4 / 1/75 / 219.8

27 Virginia / 24.6 / 1/113 / 218.1

28 Florida / 22.1 / 1/104 / 212.7

29 Kansas / 22.1 / 1/104 / 212.5

30 New Hampshire / 23.2 / 1/110 / 210.8

31 Iowa / 23.2 / 1/112 / 208.1

32 South Dakota / 22.5 / 1/108 / 208.0

33 Connecticut / 19.4 / 1/96 / 201.8

34 Maine / 23.6 / 1/118 / 200.6

35 Wyoming / 23.7 / 1/119 / 199.5

36 Vermont / 21.2 / 1/106 / 199.3

37 North Dakota / 21.5 / 1/108 / 198.5

38 Massachusetts / 18.9 / 1/95 / 198.4

39 Arizona / 23.4 / 1/118 / 198.3

40 Idaho / 20.6 / 1/105 / 197.0

41 Nebraska / 22.7 / 1/115 / 196.9

42 New Mexico / 21.3 / 1/111 / 191.5

43 Montana / 21.2 / 1/111 / 190.7

44 Washington / 21.5 / 1/114 / 188.6

45 Utah / 12.8 / 1/70 / 183.5

46 Alaska / 29.3 / 1/161 / 181.8

47 Oregon / 22.5 / 1/124 / 181.6

48 Colorado / 20.4 / 1/115 / 178.0

49 Hawaii / 21.0 / 1/119 / 176.9

50 Minnesota / 21.8 / 1/143 / 152.0


Number of Deaths Due to Diseases of the Heart per 100,000 Population, 2003
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/comparemaptable.jsp?ind...=13&typ=3&sort=a&o=d
Sources: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics, Division of Vital Statistics, National Vital Statistics Report Volume 54, Number 13, April 19, 2006, Table 29. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr54/nvsr54_13.pdf.


Smoking Rates from CDC- BRFSS Data.
http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/brfss/Trends/trendchart_c.asp?...key=10000&SUBMIT1=Go

This message has been edited. Last edited by: gkayser30,

Perhaps; the good-old boys from Miss should move to Alaska.

About the same smoking rate;but, Miss has a 71% higher Heart Disease death rate.