Smoking and Diabetes Brochure
Smoking and Diabetes: What you need to know
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Tobacco-free Pregnancy Brochure
The power to quit is inside you.
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2007 Progress Report West Virginia Division of Tobacco Prevention
The mission of the West Virginia Division of Tobacco Prevention (DTP) is to reduce disease, disability and death related to tobacco. Goals for the division include:
Prevent the initiation of tobacco use among youth, eliminate exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, promote cessation of tobacco use among adults and young people, and identify and eliminate disparities among population groups related to tobacco use.
West Virginia has the second highest adult smoking rate in the U.S. at 25.7%, and the second highest rate of spit tobacco use among men at 16.6%. Tobacco is clearly a problem for our state.
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West Virginia Tobacco Prevention Strategic Plan 2008-2013
Despite the fact that the consequences of tobacco use are well-known to West Virginians, residents continue to use tobacco in alarming numbers. Tobacco use is the number one preventable cause of premature death and disease.
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(September 2007) - 2005 West Virginia Youth Tobacco Survey Report
In 2004, 27.4% of United States high school students used some type of tobacco product. Despite significant declines, West Virginia youth continue to have high rates of tobacco use. In fact, in 2005 more than one-fourth of West Virginia high school students were current cigarette smokers, and more than one-fifth of high school males currently used smokeless tobacco. Overall, more than one-third (35.8%) of West Virginia high school students smoked a cigarette, cigar, or tobacco in a pipe or used smokeless tobacco (SLT) in the past 30 days.
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(September 2005) - 2003 West Virginia Behavioral Risk Factor Survey Report
Each year since 1984, the West Virginia Behavioral Risk Factor Survey has measured a range of risk factors that can affect our health. This report presents state survey results for the year 2003 as well as county data for the combined years 1999 through 2003.
The survey is conducted by telephone and represents a collaborative effort between the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health (WVBPH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. Standardized survey methods are provided by CDC. All 50 states, the District of Columbia, and three U.S. territories now participate in the system, known as the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).
The information in this document serves as a resource for governments, business leaders, schools, and community groups, all of which are helping to shape the health of West Virginia.
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DTP June 2006 Annual Report
Smoking prevalence among high school students in West Virginia decreased from 42.2% in 1999 to 28.5% in 2003, representing a statistically significant decline of 32.5%. Though West Virginia has consistently ranked among the top five states in youth smoking, recent data reveal that a declining trend has begun. In 2000, West Virginia ranked the highest in the country with a rate of 39%, which was 32% higher than the U.S. median of 29%.
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August 2006 Tobacco Is Killing (and Costing) Us
Most of the leading causes of death at the turn of the 20th century were diseases that are rarities today, primarily due to improved sanitation and availability of vaccines and medicine. The good news for West Virginia is that the #1 leading cause of death---tobacco-related diseases---can be stopped without vaccine or medicine. The bad news is that, despite increased funding from federal and state programs and private sources to educate the public on the dangers of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, we are still maintaining a high rate of tobacco use among adults and youth.
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2005 Adult Tobacco Survey
On average, 11 West Virginians die every day because they smoked cigarettes. That’s nearly 1 in 5 deaths in our state caused by smoking! Although the death certificates may list the cause of death as lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, or asthma --- “cigarette smoking” could just as well have been listed. Those who die from smoking-related diseases come from all walks of life, all professions, all socioeconomic groups, all family situations, all religions, all ethnic backgrounds. The loss of each of these lives to tobacco is immeasurable, and preventable.
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2006 Surgeon Generals Report on Secondhand Smoke
The 2006 Surgeon General’s report has new information about how breathing secondhand smoke hurts your health. You can find more information about this report by going to the Surgeon General’s website at www.surgeongeneral.gov.
More information is also available by going to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website at www.cdc.gov/tobacco.
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