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The Health Survey for England in 2002 found a smoking rate of 26%. By 2007 the proportion of adult smokers in England had declined four percentage points to 22%. [47] In 2015, it was reported smoking rates in England had fallen to 16.9%, a record low. [48] The rate in England had fallen to 14.4% in 2018. [49]
Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, accounting for approximately 443,000 deaths—1 of every 5 deaths—each year. [7] Cigarette smoking alone has cost the United States $96 billion in direct medical expenses and $97 billion in lost productivity per year, or an average of $4,260 per adult smoker.
From 1965 to 2006, rates of smoking in the United States have declined from 42% to 20.8%. [38] A significant majority of those who quit were professional, affluent men. Despite this decrease in the prevalence of consumption, the average number of cigarettes consumed per person per day increased from 22 in 1954 to 30 in 1978.
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.
To quit smoking, experts recommend starting your smoke-free journey by making a concrete plan. “Set a target quit date, preferably within 2 weeks, and support your quit attempt with medication ...
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 ...
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.
While the rates of cigarette smoking among adults [3] and adolescents [4] have declined in the past ten years in the United States, a considerable number of adolescents continue to smoke cigarettes. The Surgeon General's Warning released in 1964 was a major impetus for this change. [ 5 ]