Smoking rates stop falling

November 23, 2007

admin wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt

The CDC has reported that smoking rates in the US have remained the same over the last few years after having fallen year on year for the previous 7 years (1997-2004).
The government’s target is to have only 12% of the adult population smoking by 2010 but the figures suggest that they will miss the target by a long shot.
Statistics show that 20.8% of the adult population smoked last year representing a total of 45 million adults. The statistics also show that a total of 91 million Americans have been smokers at some point in their lives (defined as smoking over 100 cigarettes in their lives).
The report indicated that 80% of smokers smoked every day and 44% of smokers had tried at least once to quit smoking.
Evidence suggests that quitting smoking is the single most advantageous change a smoker can make in their lives to improve their health and lower risks [...]

Read the rest of this great post here

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