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Declines in daily smoking prevalence occurred for both sexes and all age groups over the entire 17-year time span, although youth smoking did not start significantly declining until the mid-1990s. Overall, for daily cigarette consumption, smokers by 2001 had a significantly lower proportion of smoking 26 or more cigarettes daily compared with ...
An estimated 34.3 million people in the United States, or 14% of all adults aged 18 years or older, smoked cigarettes in 2015, a figure that decreased to 13.7% of U.S. adults in 2018. [5] In 2015, the prevalence of smoking in individual U.S. states ranged from between 9.1% and 12.8% in Utah to between 23.7% and 27.4% in West Virginia .
According to USA Today, government figures show that last year about 14 percent of American adults smoked, which is down from 16 percent the year before.
While the prevalence of regular smokers dropped to 15.2% down from 21.2% in a little over a decade for that middle-aged group, older adults saw an increase from 8.7% to 9.4% in the same time frame.
The overall smoking rate in the United States dropped from approximately 46% in 1950 to approximately 21% in 2004. [27] Smoking rates continued to slowly decline throughout the 2000s and 2010s. By 2017 the percentage of current smokers had fallen to 14.0% and the proportion of ex-smokers increased, these rates remained at a stand-still ...
Life expectancy is about three years lower in the 12 states where smoking is more common than it is in the rest of the country, according to the new report – about 76 years compared with 79 years.
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In the United States, for the past 50 years efforts have been made so that the public should be aware of the risks of tobacco usage. [5] In Alabama, 22.1% of the adult population (ages 18+), over 783,000 individuals, are current cigarette smokers. Across all states, the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adults ranges from 9.3% to 26.5%.