Table 2

Annual percentage change and 95% CI of smoking-attributable cancer mortality rate (SACMR) among adults aged 35 years or older in California and the rest of the USA: Joinpoint regression results

	California				Rest of the USA
	Joinpoint	Years (range)	APC (%)	95% CI	Joinpoint	Years (range)	APC (%)	95% CI
Overall	1984	1979–1984	1.3	0.2 to 2.4	1991	1979–1991	1.1	1.0 to 1.2
	1994	1984–1994	−1.1	−1.5 to −0.7		1991–2005	−1.8	−1.9 to −1.7
	1994	1994–2005	−2.6	−2.8 to −2.4		1991–2005	−1.8	−1.9 to −1.7
Male	1988	1979–1988	−0.9	−1.5 to −0.2	1991	1979–1991	0.2	0.0 to 0.4
Male	1988	1988–2005	−3.7	−3.9 to −3.5	1991	1991–2005	−3.6	−3.7 to −3.5
Female	1984	1979–1984	2.2	1.8 to 2.7	1991	1979–1991	1.8	1.7 to 1.9
	1993	1984–1993	0.7	0.4 to 0.9	1996	1991–1996	0.7	0.2 to 1.1
	2001	1993–2001	−0.9	−1.2 to −0.7	2002	1996–2002	−0.1	−0.4 to 0.2
	2001	2001–2005	−1.9	−2.5 to −1.4	2002	2002–2005	−1.0	−1.6 to 0.4

Bold numbers are statistically different from 0 at the 5% level.
APC, annual percentage change.