Table 1.

Total number of hospital admissions between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2010.

Outcome	Total hospital admissions (n)	Daily average rates across counties (per 100,000 people $\ge 65$ y of age)
		Mean	Median	Range	Interquartile range
Respiratory
All days	1,038,598	10.0	8.8	0.9–106.4	5.8
Smoke days	39,335	9.0	6.8	0–197.6	8.5
Non-smoke days	999,263	10.0	10.6	0.9–106.5	5.7
Asthma, bronchitis, and wheezing
All days	82,982	0.6	0.5	0–3.4	0.5
Smoke days	3,114	0.5	0	0–31.7	0.7
Non-smoke days	79,868	0.6	0.6	0–3.4	0.4
All-cause cardiovascular
All days	2,569,398	20.8	19.8	4.6–98.8	10.2
Smoke days	99,439	22.1	19.4	0–282.5	13.8
Non-smoke days	2,469,959	20.8	19.8	4.8–98.9	10.2

Note: All days: 758,432 county-days; smoke days: 28,118 county-days; non-smoke days: 730,314 county-days.