Sunday, January 25, 2009

Kentucky holds highest smoking death rate

Kentucky holds highest smoking death rate"A new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that Kentucky and West Virginia, states that traditionally have the most smokers, also have the highest death rates from smoking. The other states within the top ten for highest annual smoking death rates were Nevada, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Indiana and Missouri. Utah and Hawaii had the lowest smoking death rates. According to the study, Kentucky had 371 smoking related deaths out of every 100,000 adults age 35 and older. The report appears in this week's edition of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" - redOrbit

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