States by yearly healthcare cost per smoker

Smoking costs the U.S. more than $600 billion in medical costs and lost productivity every year, a Jan. 10 WalletHub report found.

WalletHub calculated the per-person medical cost of smokers in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. They used data from the CDC on the annual healthcare costs caused by smoking  and divided it by the total number of adult smokers in that state.

Here are the healthcare costs per smoker per year for each state:

  1. Connecticut: $7,057

  2. Massachusetts: $6,938

  3. District of Columbia: $6,487

  4. Rhode Island: $6,116

  5. Maryland: $5,791

  6. New Hampshire: $5,753

  7. New York: $5,733

  8. New Jersey: $5,332

  9. Delaware: $5,128

  10. Vermont: $4,968

  11. Alaska: $4,918

  12. Washington: $4,690

  13. Maine: $4,598

  14. California: $4,407

  15. Illinois: $4,391

  16. Hawaii: $4,385

  17. Minnesota: $4,357

  18. Florida: $4,253

  19. Nebraska: $4,079

  20. Pennsylvania: $4,011

  21. Wisconsin: $3,956

  22. Colorado: $3,925

  23. South Dakota: $3,906

  24. Virginia: $3,814

  25. Michigan: $3,737

  26. Wyoming: $3,693

  27. Missouri: $3,669

  28. Oregon: $3,656

  29. North Dakota: $3,572

  30. Ohio: $3,551

  31. Utah: $3,540

  32. Texas: $3,504

  33. Iowa: $3,469

  34. Indiana: $3,442

  35. Kansas: $3,436

  36. Oklahoma: $3,415

  37. New Mexico: $3,375

  38. Arizona: $3,354

  39. Montana: $3,254

  40. West Virginia: $3,208

  41. North Carolina: $3,192

  42. Kentucky: $3,190

  43. Louisiana: $3,148

  44. Georgia: $3,121

  45. Mississippi: $3,109

  46. Nevada: $3,085

  47. Idaho: $3,078

  48. Alabama: $3,023

  49. South Carolina: $3,022

  50. Arkansas: $2,736

  51. Tennessee: $2,670

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