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.

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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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