From: johnpolito@comcast.net
Date: Thu, 12/04/03
Age at which children in S.C. start experimenting with cigarettes - 12
years of age
Youth nicotine smokers are 4 times more likely to drink alcohol
Youth nicotine smokers are 10 times more likely to smoke marijuana
Youth nicotine smokers are 17 times more likely to use hallucinogens
Youth nicotine smokers are 25 times more likely to use cocaine
Youth nicotine smokers are ?? times more likely to become "regular"
litterbugs
Year 2000 tobacco company marketing in S.C. - $137 million
SC children alive today who will become nicotine smokers - 283,000
Number of SC teens who became daily nicotine smokers in 2003 - 15,000
Number of current SC youth scheduled to die from smoking - 66,606
1995 SC death toll for all illegal drugs combined - 47
1999 SC death toll from the chronic use of nicotiana tabacum - 5,992
Number of years of life lost by 50% of SC smokers killed by tobacco -
15.3 years
Percentage of our 5,992 annual deaths who started smoking during
youth - 90%
Percentage of all S.C. deaths annually attributable to smoking - 18%
1989 percentage of adults who regularly smoked nicotine - 24.3%
% of SC population chemically dependent upon nicotine (DAODAS) - 23%
# of 3,000,985 adults over 18 x 23% = # of nicotine dependent
adults - 690,226
1990 percentage of adults who regularly smoked nicotine - 27.1%
1996 percentage of adults who regularly smoked nicotine - 23.0%
2000 percentage of adults who regularly smoked nicotine - 24.7%
2001 percentage of adults who regularly smoked nicotine - 24.9%
2002 percentage of adults who regularly smoked nicotine - 26.0%
2003 percentage of adults who regularly smoke nicotine - 26.5%
# of 3,000,985 adults over 18 x 26% = # of regular adult smokers =
780,256
1991 percentage of 9th-12th graders regularly smoking nicotine - 25.6%
1993 percentage of 9th-12th graders regularly smoking nicotine - 26.7%
1995 percentage of 9th-12th graders regularly smoking nicotine - 32.6%
1999 percentage of 9th-12th graders regularly smoking nicotine - 36.0%
1999 percentage of 9th-12th graders regularly using any tobacco
product - 41.5%
% of adult nicotine smokers who today say they want to quit - 70%
% of S.C. adult smokers who tried quitting in 2000 (> 24 hours) - 44%
% of quitters relying upon the nicotine patch who relapse within 6
months - 91%
% of teen quitters (ages 13-17) using the patch who relapse within 6
months - 95%
% of quitters relying upon nicotine gum who relapse within 6 months -
92%
% of smokers who the Calif. smoker survey indicates benefited by using
NRT - 0 %
% of smokers who the Minn. insurance survey indicate benefited by
using NRT - 0 %
Average number of serious quitting attempts my each "successful"
quitter - 5
1998 S.C. medical expenditures attributable to smoking - $855,000,000
1998 S.C. medical Medicaid expenditures attributable to smoking -
$307,000,000
1999 productivity losses attributable to smoking - $1.7 billion
Tobacco Settlement Revenues in 2001 (paid indirectly by SC smokers) -
$73,000,000
Tobacco Settlement Revenues paid to tobacco shareholders (1st two
yrs) - $115 million
1999 CDC's Best Practices low estimate for S.C. tobacco control
funding - $23.9 million
1999 CDC's Best Practices high estimate for S.C. tobacco control
funding - $62 million
Estimated cessation/prevention program funding that could be generated
if 10 cents were added to each pack - $32 million
State nicotine cessation programs in 1998 - $00.00
State nicotine cessation programs in 2000 - $00.00
State nicotine cessation programs in 2002 - $00.00
American Lung Association's 2003 Grade for S.C. tobacco control
funding - "F"
S.C.'s National ALA Ranking for tobacco control programs funding -
44th
American Lung Association's 2003 Grade for S.C. youth daily access to
tobacco - "F"
S.C.'s National ALA Ranking for controlling youth access to tobacco -
45th
American Lung Association's 2003 Grade for S.C. clean indoor air
policies - "F"
S.C.'s National ALA Ranking for our state's clean indoor air
policies - 46th
American Lung Association's 2003 Grade for S.C. for selling cheap
tobacco - "F"
S.C.'s National ALA Ranking for attempt to using taxes to control
cost - 48th
United Health's 2002 smoking prevalence ranking for SC - 43rd
United Health's 2002 national rankings for premature death - 47th
United Health's 2001 overall state health ranking for South Carolina -
48th
United Health's 2002 overall state health ranking for South Carolina -
48th
United Health's 2003 overall state health ranking for South
rolina - 48th
SC Life Expectancy - At 69 years a white male in SC has the 3rd
lowest life expectancy of any state and non-white SC male's 64 year
life expectancy is 2nd lowest in the nation. Woman fair no better as
a white female's 77 year life expectancy is second lowest in the
nation and a non-white female's 74 years is 2nd lowest among
non-white females.
Why?
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