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The Toll of Tobacco In Your State 3/7/08 1:11 PM The Toll of Tobacco in Hawai'i Tobacco Use in Hawaii High school students who smoke 16.4%(10,900) Male high school students who use smokeless or spit tobacco 3.8% (females use much lower) Kids (under 18) who become new daily smokers each year 1,900 Kids exposed to secondhand smoke at home NA Packs of cigarettes bought or smoked by kids each year 2.2 million Adults in Hawaii who smoke 17.5% (172,700) Nationwide, youth smoking has declined dramatically since the mid-1990s, but that decline appears to have slowed considerably or even stopped in recent years. The 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that the percentage of high school students reporting that they have smoked cigarettes in the past month Increased to 23 percent in 2005 from 21.9 percent in 2003. This increase follows a 40 percent decline between 1997, when rates peaked at 36.4 percent, and 2003. The survey also found that 13.6 percent of high school males use spit tobacco. U.S. adult smoking has decreased gradually in the last several decades, and 20.9 percent of U.S. adults (about 45 million) currently smoke. Deaths in Hawaii From Smoking Adults who die each year from their own smoking 1,200 Kids now under 18 and alive in Hawai'I who will ultimately die 27,400 prematurely from smoking Adult nonsmokers who die each year from exposure to secondhand 90 to 260 smoke Smoking kills more people than alcohol, AIDS, car crashes, illegal drugs, murders, and suicides combined and thousands more die from other tobacco-related causes such as fires caused by smoking (more than 1,000 deaths/year nationwide) and smokeless tobacco use. No good estimates are currently available, however, for the number of Hawai'i citizens who die from these other tobacco-related causes, or for the much larger numbers who suffer from tobacco-related health problems each year without actually dying. Smoking-Caused Monetary Costs in Hawaii Annual health care costs in Hawaii directly caused by smoking $336 million - Portion covered by the state Medicaid program $117 million Residents' state & federal tax burden from smoking-caused $622 per household government expenditures Smoking-caused productivity losses in Hawai'I $308 million Amounts do not include health costs caused by exposure to secondhand smoke, smoking-caused fires, spit tobacco use, or cigar and pipe smoking. Other non-health costs from tobacco use include residential and commercial property losses from smoking-caused fires (more than $500 million per year nationwide); extra cleaning and maintenance costs made necessary by tobacco smoke and litter (about $4+ billion nationwide for commercial establishments alone); and additional productivity losses from smoking-caused work absences, smoking breaks, and on-the-job performance declines and early termination of employment caused by smoking-caused disability or Illness (dollar amount listed above is just from productive work lives shortened by smoking-caused death). Tobacco Industry Influence in Hawaii Annual tobacco industry marketing expenditures nationwide $13.4 billion Estimated portion spent for Hawai'i marketing each year $42.2 million Published research studies have found that kids are twice as sensitive to tobacco advertising than adults and are more likely to be influenced to smoke by cigarette marketing than by peer pressure, and that one-third of underage experlmentation with smoking is attributable to tobacco company advertising. Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, 2005 http://w .tobaccofreekids.org/reports/settlements/toliprint.php?StatelD-Hi Page 1 of 1