Tobacco

Each year, an average of 16,200 Michigan adults die from their own smoking, and nearly 6,000 Michigan children become addicted to tobacco, a third of whom will die prematurely as a result. In fact, tobacco kills more people in our state than AIDS, alcohol, auto accidents, drug overdoses, murders, and suicides combined.

Smoking-related health problems cost Michigan more than $4.5 billion per year, including more than $1.3 billion in Medicaid expenditures. MDHHS and its many local partners have worked tirelessly to help tobacco users quit, and their efforts have led to a 47% drop in Michigan high school smoking since 2009, and an 11% drop in adult smoking from 2011 through 2015. But, there is more to do, and you can help!

• Download the US Department of Health & Human Services’ Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update. Rockville. For guidance on the use of tobacco dependence counseling and medication treatments to help patients stop using tobacco.
• Visit the Michigan Tobacco Quitline’s website and for health care provider materials and instruction on how to refer patients for free or low-cost supports for quitting.
• Listen to, or download slides from archived webinars from the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, some of which are available for CME/CE credit.
• Earn credit for participating in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health free, online, one-hour program on treating tobacco use and dependence.

For more information, visit the Michigan Tobacco Control Program’s website, or contact them at (517) 335-8376.