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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 16.
Published in final edited form as: Nicotine Tob Res. 2012 Dec 17;15(7):1316–1321. doi: 10.1093/ntr/nts254

Table 1.

Estimated Number of Multiunit Housing (MUH) Residents, MUH Residents With Smoke-free Home Rules, and MUH Residents who Experienced Secondhand Smoke Infiltration in their Home in the Past Year, by State

State MUH populationa (%) MUH populationa (n) MUH population with
smoke-free home ruleb (n)
MUH population with SHS
infiltration in homec (n)
Alabama 12.6 593,297 443,193 195,000–205,000
Alaska 28.5 199,065 161,840 71,000–75,000
Arizona 19.6 1,292,772 1,091,100 480,000–504,000
Arkansas 12.9 372,739 251,599 111,000–116,000
California 32.0 11,827,732 10,562,165 4,647,000–4,880,000
Colorado 23.9 1,200,915 1,018,376 448,000–470,000
Connecticut 31.8 1,118,816 917,429 404,000–424,000
Delaware 27.0 238,983 190,708 84,000–88,000
DC 83.5 500,714 377,037 166,000–174,000
Florida 27.1 5,023,790 4,265,197 1,877,000–1,971,000
Georgia 18.4 1,808,575 1,468,563 646,000–678,000
Hawaii 37.0 479,216 405,896 179,000–188,000
Idaho 12.9 199,408 176,277 78,000–81,000
Illinois 31.0 4,002,227 3,021,681 1,330,000–1,396,000
Indiana 15.2 976,313 678,538 299,000–313,000
Iowa 16.2 487,273 363,505 160,000–168,000
Kansas 16.6 467,912 364,503 160,000–168,000
Kentucky 15.4 664,373 403,939 178,000–187,000
Louisiana 15.8 709,748 535,150 235,000–247,000
Maine 19.4 255,750 196,416 86,000–91,000
Maryland 40.0 2,279,791 1,871,709 824,000–865,000
Massachusetts 39.8 2,624,248 2,138,762 941,000–988,000
Michigan 16.3 1,625,066 1,165,172 513,000–538,000
Minnesota 21.8 1,148,035 933,352 411,000–431,000
Mississippi 11.8 348,336 251,847 111,000–116,000
Missouri 16.2 969,988 683,842 301,000–316,000
Montana 14.6 142,348 116,583 51,000–54,000
Nebraska 16.9 303,629 243,814 107,000–113,000
Nevada 25.8 681,916 570,082 251,000–263,000
New Hampshire 25.0 331,144 269,551 119,000–125,000
New Jersey 38.4 3,343,772 2,785,362 1,226,000–1,287,000
New Mexico 15.1 303,460 240,037 106,000–111,000
New York 51.7 10,102,931 7,728,742 3,401,000–3,571,000
North Carolina 15.8 1,482,180 1,090,884 480,000–504,000
North Dakota 23.5 152,008 119,935 53,000–55,000
Ohio 19.5 2,250,816 1,553,063 683,000–718,000
Oklahoma 12.2 449,820 322,971 142,000–149,000
Oregon 22.8 872,250 756,241 333,000–349,000
Pennsylvania 33.4 4,209,992 3,031,194 1,334,000–1,400,000
Rhode Island 35.6 374,942 291,330 128,000–135,000
South Carolina 13.5 615,768 467,983 206,000–216,000
South Dakota 16.3 132,418 104,213 46,000–48,000
Tennessee 15.4 969,623 684,554 301,000–316,000
Texas 20.4 5,055,590 4,186,028 1,842,000–1,934,000
Utah 19.8 551,345 508,340 224,000–235,000
Vermont 21.0 130,570 99,886 44,000–46,000
Virginia 26.5 2,088,886 1,666,931 733,000–770,000
Washington 22.8 1,519,436 1,329,507 585,000–614,000
West Virginia 10.1 183,797 115,057 51,000–53,000
Wisconsin 24.1 1,362,801 1,031,640 454,000–477,000
Wyoming 14.9 81,096 59,362 26,000–27,000
United States 25.8 79,207,690 62,653,283 27,567,000–28,946,000

Note. DC = District of Columbia; MUH = multiunit housing; SHS = secondhand smoke.

a

Estimated percentage and number of U.S. residents who live in MUH (American Community Survey).

b

Estimated number of MUH residents with a smoke-free home rule (derived from Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey data).

c

Estimated number of MUH residents with a smoke-free home rule exposed to SHS (lower bound: 44.0%; upper bound: 46.2%).