Overview of Tobacco Disparities in Colorado
Tobacco is not an equal opportunity burden. Its addiction, toxic smoke exposures, and other impacts are excessively common among some of Colorado's non-white populations and people with social or economic disadvantages. Tobacco burdens include smoking, not quitting smoking, not using help or getting advice to quit, using snuff or chewing tobacco, being exposed to secondhand smoke, and not knowing secondhand smoke is dangerous. Many tobacco burdens originate with cigarette smoking. In the table below, red identifies groups with excessively high rates of smoking in 2005, and bold identifies groups whose smoking rates were significantly improved from their 2001 rates. Estimated rates for 2005 are based on the 2001 population mix of age, sex and ethnicity.
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Changes in a Burden |
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group |
number |
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2001 |
2005 |
2001 |
2005 |
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wtd.* |
adj.¤ |
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all adults |
613,984 |
585,035 |
19.7 |
17.3 |
17.4 |
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SEX |
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female |
296,186 |
254,686 |
19.1 |
15.1 |
15.3 |
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male |
317,798 |
330,348 |
20.4 |
19.5 |
19.5 |
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AGE GROUP |
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18-24 |
126,710 |
110,311 |
30.3 |
24.5 |
24.9 |
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25-64 |
450,550 |
439,946 |
19.6 |
17.7 |
17.7 |
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65+ |
36,725 |
34,778 |
9.2 |
7.8 |
8.0 |
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ETHNICITY |
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white (non-Hispanic) |
459,915 |
407,951 |
19.1 |
15.7 |
17.4 |
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Hispanic or Latino (all) |
98,901 |
126,942 |
21.8 |
22.8 |
22.3 |
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black or African American |
19,713 |
21,583 |
17.9 |
18.1 |
14.7 |
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American Indian |
15,444 |
11,590 |
36.9 |
34.9 |
36.8 |
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Asian American |
9,731 |
5,841 |
14.5 |
14.5 |
17.2 |
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all other |
10,279 |
11,128 |
35.5 |
29.9 |
38.2 |
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INCOME RELATIVE TO POVERTY† |
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200 or more of poverty |
367,731 |
348,847 |
16.9 |
15.3 |
16.0 |
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100 to 199 of poverty |
139,318 |
104,946 |
30.7 |
22.6 |
24.5 |
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below poverty |
42,561 |
57,393 |
31.7 |
32.2 |
37.6 |
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COMPLETED HIGH SCHOOL† |
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yes |
538,010 |
504,313 |
18.9 |
16.0 |
16.4 |
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no |
75,975 |
80,722 |
51.7 |
35.3 |
44.2 |
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HAS HEALTH INSURANCE† |
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yes |
394,685 |
350,664 |
16.9 |
14.0 |
14.8 |
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no |
132,135 |
166,138 |
38.5 |
31.1 |
30.7 |
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DISABLED/UNABLE TO WORK† |
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no |
584,211 |
549,096 |
19.2 |
16.8 |
16.9 |
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yes |
28,460 |
34,789 |
49.5 |
38.7 |
42.9 |
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RURAL† |
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nonrural counties |
480,621 |
459,331 |
19.1 |
17.0 |
17.1 |
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rural counties |
133,363 |
125,703 |
22.7 |
18.4 |
18.9 |
*Weighted rates are based on the 2005 population. Red means significantly higher than average.
¤Adjusted rates are standardized to 2001 on sex, age and ethnicity (as if the population's age-sex-ethnic mix stayed the same from 2001 to 2005). Bold means significantly improved from 2001 to 2005.
People with unknown group status are omitted.