More than 17 in 100 adults in the United States

Nearly 20 in 100 adults in Maine

More than 20 in 100 adults in Oxford County

CURRENT CIGARETTE SMOKING RATES

THE STATE OF TOBACCO USE IN MAINE

OXFORD COUNTY

20.2%

TOBACCO INDUSTRY INFLUENCE IN MAINE

Tobacco Companies SpendAnnually Marketing in Maine

If Oxford County’s current cigarette rate among adults was on par with the national average, 1,429 less adults would smoke. This is about the population of Woodstock.

TOBACCO USE DISPARITIES

34.2%17.1%

Current smoking rate among adults with no behavioral health condition

Current smoking rate among adults with a behavioral health condition

Current smoking rates are twice as high among adults with a behavioral health condition.

People with a behavioral health condition are not only more likely to smoke, they also smoke more frequently. They account for 25% of the adult population, but they consume 40% of cigarettes sold in the U.S.

ADULT SMOKING RATE

Oxford County Profile

9th HIGHESTRATE IN MAINE

(MAINE 19.8%)

State Spending on VS.$46.7

MILLION $5.3

MILLION Tobacco Prevention

Youth cigarette, cigar, chewing tobacco, snuff, dip, dissolvable tobacco products use

YOUTH AND TOBACCO USE

(MAINE 42.5%)49.1%

Nearly half of all Oxford County high school students report seeing tobacco advertisements “a lot” in stores.

chewsmoke

U.S.Maine

40%

1997 2015

EXPOSURE TO ADVERTISING

OXFORD COUNTY

10.6%Youth Cigarette Smoking Rate

(MAINE 8.8%)

18.6% (MAINE 13.9%)

Maine is Slipping Backward

Second Hand Smoke Exposure Rate

39.1% (MAINE 31.1%)

Electronic Vapor Product Use Rate

12.3% (MAINE 15.3%)

Vaping with e-cigarettes that contain nicotine can be addictive.In a large study of youth*, those who used e-cigarettes were 2x more likely to start smoking cigarettes within 2 years than youth who never used any tobacco product.

* Nationally representative sample of 10,384 youth, ages 12-17, participating in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study

e-cigarette

2015 was the first year since 1997 that Maine’s youth smoking rate rose above the national rate

USE RATES

ReferencesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. Behavioral Use Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2014-2016. United States Census Bureau. Population Estimates, 2017.Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Toll of Tobacco in Maine, 2018. Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Broken Promises to Our Children: A State-by-State Look at the 1998 Tobacco Settlement 19 Years Later FY2018, 2017.Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2008-2015. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, 2017.Watkins SL, Glantz SA, Chaffee BW. Association of Noncigarette Tobacco Product Use With Future Cigarette Smoking Among Youth in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, 2013-2015. JAMA Pediatr. 2018;172(2):181–187. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.4173Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Maine Integrated Youth Health Survey, 2017.

For more information, please visit www.mainepublichealth.org. State of tobacco use in Maine fact sheets were generously supported by the Maine Cancer Foundation.