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A CLOSER LOOK: $3.19 BILLION BROKEN DOWN The $3.19 billion Minnesotans spent on excess medical costs related to smoking includes nursing home care, ambulatory care, hospital care, prescription drugs and other personal health care for adults.' These total expenditures do not include the costs of lost productivity or workers' compensation that are indirectly attributable to smoking. F. 2,584 SMOKING -ATTRIBUTABLE HEALTH CARE COSTS: 1,881 MINNESOTA, 2014 1,703 COST COMPONENT COSTS Nursing home (adult) $472,000,000 Ambulatory care (adult) $410,000,000 Hospital care (adult) $1,144,000,000 Prescription drugs (adult) $243,000,000 Other services (adult) $924,000,000 Total costs $3,194,000,000 THE HUMAN COST: LIVES LOST This information has been developed using data provided by the state of Minnesota and calculated using methods developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to calculate these costs on a state -by - state basis.' Totals may not equal sums because of rounding. In 2014, smoking was responsible for the deaths of 6,306 adults in Minnesota and six infants whose mothers smoked during pregnancy.' These individuals suffered from one or more of 24 adult and four infant conditions that have been tied to premature death in smokers or infant mortality. The chart below demonstrates the staggering proportion of overall deaths from these conditions that can be tied directly to smoking. ALL DEATHS AND SMOKING -ATTRIBUTABLE DEATHS: MINNESOTA, 2014 DISEASE CATEGORY Cancer* (adult) Respiratory diseases= (adult) Heart and vascular diseases' (adult) Other diseases± (adult) Perinatal conditions== (infant) Total deaths SMOKING - ALL ATTRIBUTABLE DEATHS DEATHS 5,669 2,584 2,813 1,881 9,946 1,703 1,193 138 64 6 19,685 6,312 Includes: Lip, oral cavity, pharynx; esophagus; stomach; colorectal; liver; pancreas; larynx; trachea, lung, bronchus; cervix uteri; kidney, other urinary-, urinary bladder; and acute myeloid leukemia. Includes: Tuberculosis; pneumonia, influenza; bronchitis, emphysema; and chronic airway obstruction. F Includes: Ischemic heart disease; other heart diseases; cerebrovascular disease; atherosclerosis; aortic aneurysm; and other arterial disease. } Includes: Macular degeneration and diabetes mellitus. _= Includes: Short gestation/low birth weight; respiratory distress syndrome; other respiratory - newborn; and sudden infant death syndrome. This information has been developed using data provided by the state of Minnesota and calculated using methods developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to calculate these costs on a state -by - state basis.' Totals may not equal sums because of rounding.