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Cigarette smoking in the United States & Michigan.

In Michigan, smoking kills more people than the following combined:

  • AIDS
  • Alcohol
  • Car accidents
  • Drug overdoses
  • Murders
  • Suicides

Smoking cigarettes and other tobacco products is the single most preventable cause of disease, disability and death, both in Michigan and in the U.S. [11]

Thousands of young people start smoking cigarettes every day. [9] This means...

  • More than 3,200 people, 18 years or younger, smoke their first cigarette.
  • Around 2,100 youth and young adults who have been occasional smokers become daily smokers.

In 2013...
17.8% of U.S adults (18 or older) were current smokers. [8]

Note: Current smokers are defined as persons who reported smoking at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and reported smoking every day or some days.

In 2014...
21.2% of adults (18 years or older) in Michigan were current smokers.

In 2013...
11.8% of high school students (age 14-17) in Michigan were current smokers (per YRBS 2013).

8. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults—United States, 2005-2013. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2014;63(47):1108-12 [accessed 2015 Apr 7].

9., 10., 22. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014 [accessed 2015 Apr 7].

11. http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdch/2011-State_of_Michigan_456820_7.pdf