Smoking Rate In The U.S. Hits Record Low

Smoking Rate In The U.S. Hits Record Low

According to recently published data by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cigarette smoking for adults in the U.S. has dropped be over 3 percent from 20.9 percent in 2005 to 17.8 percent in 2013.

This marks the lowest recorded data since the CDC’s National Health Interview Survey started registering it in 1965. The same data shows the total number of cigarette smokers dropping from approximately 45.1 million in 2005 to 42.1 million in 2013, an even more impressive result if we take the population growth during that period into consideration.

Even with the total amount of cigarette smoking going down, certain groups still register high percentages of smokers. Among of the groups where cigarette smoking levels are still high we find, Americans with less education, under the poverty line, Americans of multiple races, the LGBT community, American Natives and people who live in the Southern and Midwest regions of the country.

According to the data, among current cigarette smokers, the rate of those who smoke every day has decreased from 80.8 percent in 2005 to 76.9 percent in 2013. However, the rates of those who only smoke on some occasions has increased from 19.2 percent in 2005 to 23.1 percent in 2013.

According Brian King Ph. D and scientific advisor for the CDC, cutting back on the amount of cigarettes you smoke without smoking doesn’t help in terms of general health.

Posted by George Daniels on Thursday December 11 2014, 3:26 AM EST. Ref: Brevard Times. Link. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News, Health. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0