maine public health association - aroostook county profile...2019/04/09 · (maine 42.5%) 44.9%...
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More than 17 in 100 adults in the United States
Nearly 20 in 100 adults in Maine
More than 25 in 100 adults in Aroostook County
CURRENT CIGARETTE SMOKING RATES
THE STATE OF TOBACCO USE IN MAINE
AROOSTOOK COUNTY
25.4%
TOBACCO INDUSTRY INFLUENCE IN MAINE
Tobacco Companies SpendAnnually Marketing in Maine
If Aroostook County’s current cigarette rate among adults was on par with the national average, 4,703 less adults would smoke. This is about half the population of Presque Isle.
TOBACCO USE DISPARITIES
34.2%17.1%
Current smoking rate among adults with no behavioral health condition
Current smoking rate among adults with a behavioral health condition
Current smoking rates are twice as high among adults with a behavioral health condition.
People with a behavioral health condition are not only more likely to smoke, they also smoke more frequently. They account for 25% of the adult population, but they consume 40% of cigarettes sold in the U.S.
ADULT SMOKING RATE
Aroostook County Profile
TIED FOR HIGHESTRATE IN MAINE
(MAINE 19.8%)
State Spending on VS.$46.7
MILLION $5.3
MILLION Tobacco Prevention
Youth cigarette, cigar, chewing tobacco, snuff, dip, dissolvable tobacco products use
YOUTH AND TOBACCO USE
(MAINE 42.5%)44.9%
Nearly half of all Aroostook County high school students report seeing tobacco advertisements “a lot” in stores.
chewsmoke
U.S.Maine
40%
1997 2015
EXPOSURE TO ADVERTISING
AROOSTOOK COUNTY
13.4%Youth Cigarette Smoking Rate
(MAINE 8.8%)
14.3% (MAINE 13.9%)
Maine is Slipping Backward
Second Hand Smoke Exposure Rate
42.6% (MAINE 31.1%)
Electronic Vapor Product Use Rate
13.7% (MAINE 15.3%)
Vaping with e-cigarettes that contain nicotine can be addictive.In a large study of youth*, those who used e-cigarettes were 2x more likely to start smoking cigarettes within 2 years than youth who never used any tobacco product.
* Nationally representative sample of 10,384 youth, ages 12-17, participating in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study
e-cigarette
2015 was the first year since 1997 that Maine’s youth smoking rate rose above the national rate
USE RATES
ReferencesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. Behavioral Use Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2014-2016. United States Census Bureau. Population Estimates, 2017.Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Toll of Tobacco in Maine, 2018. Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Broken Promises to Our Children: A State-by-State Look at the 1998 Tobacco Settlement 19 Years Later FY2018, 2017.Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2008-2015. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, 2017.Watkins SL, Glantz SA, Chaffee BW. Association of Noncigarette Tobacco Product Use With Future Cigarette Smoking Among Youth in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, 2013-2015. JAMA Pediatr. 2018;172(2):181–187. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.4173Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Maine Integrated Youth Health Survey, 2017.
For more information, please visit www.mainepublichealth.org. State of tobacco use in Maine fact sheets were generously supported by the Maine Cancer Foundation.