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:
- Connecticut: $7,057
- Massachusetts: $6,938
- District of Columbia: $6,487
- Rhode Island: $6,116
- Maryland: $5,791
- New Hampshire: $5,753
- New York: $5,733
- New Jersey: $5,332
- Delaware: $5,128
- Vermont: $4,968
- Alaska: $4,918
- Washington: $4,690
- Maine: $4,598
- California: $4,407
- Illinois: $4,391
- Hawaii: $4,385
- Minnesota: $4,357
- Florida: $4,253
- Nebraska: $4,079
- Pennsylvania: $4,011
- Wisconsin: $3,956
- Colorado: $3,925
- South Dakota: $3,906
- Virginia: $3,814
- Michigan: $3,737
- Wyoming: $3,693
- Missouri: $3,669
- Oregon: $3,656
- North Dakota: $3,572
- Ohio: $3,551
- Utah: $3,540
- Texas: $3,504
- Iowa: $3,469
- Indiana: $3,442
- Kansas: $3,436
- Oklahoma: $3,415
- New Mexico: $3,375
- Arizona: $3,354
- Montana: $3,254
- West Virginia: $3,208
- North Carolina: $3,192
- Kentucky: $3,190
- Louisiana: $3,148
- Georgia: $3,121
- Mississippi: $3,109
- Nevada: $3,085
- Idaho: $3,078
- Alabama: $3,023
- South Carolina: $3,022
- Arkansas: $2,736
- Tennessee: $2,670
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