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Minnesota Tobacco Use FAQ's The Human and Economic Costs of Tobacco in Minnesota, (link to Minnesota Department of Health web site.) Adult Tobacco Use in Minnesota 1 Current cigarette smoking among adults aged 18 and older, 1997
By Educational background
By age grouping
Cigarette smoking among adults by race/ethnicity, 1996 - 1997
Smokeless tobacco use among adults aged 18+, 1995 - 1996
Health Impact and Costs
Number of Minnesota youth projected to die prematurely from their smoking: 97,009 Five-Year Goal 2 To meet the state’s five-year goal for reducing tobacco use by 30 percent, current tobacco use would have to fall from 38.7 to 27.1 percent among high school students and from 12.6 to 8.8 percent among middle school students by 2005. National Comparisons 2 Minnesota’s high school students appear to be using tobacco products at slightly higher rates than high school students in the United States as a whole: 38.7 percent compared to 34.8 percent. However, this difference is not statistically significant. In particular, Minnesota shows slightly higher prevalence rates for cigarette, smokeless tobacco, and pipe use among high school students. In middle schools, however, the percentages of Minnesota students currently using tobacco products are virtually identical to those of their counterparts around the country. (MN 12.6% vs. U.S. 12.8%)
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for Disease Control and Prevention. State Tobacco Control Highlights -- 1999.
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