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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 11.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2016 Oct;25(10):1402–1410. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-16-0244

Table 3.

The 10 states with the lowest and highest ranking of current cigarette smoking prevalence estimates (%) respectively

Male and female Male Female
Rank State Prevalence (SE) State Prevalence (SE) State Prevalence (SE)
Lowest ranking
 1 Utah 9.64 (0.11) Utah 11.24 (0.18) Utah 8.05 (0.13)
 2 California 13.01 (0.06) California 14.93 (0.10) California 11.15 (0.07)
 3 Hawaii 14.96 (0.17) Hawaii 17.18 (0.26) Hawaii 12.77 (0.23)
 4 Vermont 15.72 (0.15) Vermont 17.63 (0.23) Vermont 13.9 (0.20)
 5 Washington 16.06 (0.10) Washington 18.16 (0.15) Washington 14.01 (0.12)
 6 Maryland 16.11 (0.09) Connecticut 18.32 (0.23) Maryland 14.08 (0.12)
 7 Connecticut 16.18 (0.15) Maryland 18.34 (0.14) Connecticut 14.21 (0.19)
 8 Oregon 16.41 (0.12) New Hampshire 18.50 (0.28) Oregon 14.39 (0.16)
 9 New Hampshire 16.53 (0.18) Oregon 18.52 (0.19) Idaho 14.49 (0.17)
 10 Idaho 16.68 (0.13) Idaho 18.90 (0.21) New Hampshire 14.66 (0.24)
Highest ranking
 42 Mississippi 20.92 (0.07) Mississippi 23.90 (0.12) Alabama 18.25 (0.10)
 43 Ohio 21.12 (0.08) Ohio 23.96 (0.13) Ohio 18.50 (0.10)
 44 Louisiana 21.35 (0.08) Louisiana 24.27 (0.13) Louisiana 18.62 (0.11)
 45 Indiana 22.35 (0.09) Indiana 25.25 (0.14) Indiana 19.61 (0.12)
 46 Oklahoma 22.62 (0.09) Oklahoma 25.44 (0.14) Oklahoma 19.91 (0.12)
 47 Arkansas 22.66 (0.10) Arkansas 25.52 (0.15) Arkansas 19.96 (0.13)
 48 Missouri 22.78 (0.10) Missouri 25.75 (0.16) Missouri 20.01 (0.13)
 49 Tennessee 23.51 (0.09) Tennessee 26.56 (0.14) Tennessee 20.69 (0.12)
 50 Kentucky 24.56 (0.09) Kentucky 27.52 (0.13) Kentucky 21.76 (0.12)
 51 West Virginia 24.81 (0.11) West Virginia 27.79 (0.18) West Virginia 21.96 (0.15)

NOTE: Results from model-based SAE, total, and by gender, 2012.