In US, cigarette smoking reaches new low: study
Just 13.9 per cent of the US population smoke cigarettes, according to a US government report
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WASHINGTON DC:
Just 13.9 per cent of the US population smokes cigarettes, according to a US government report Tuesday which said the American smoking rate has reached "the lowest level ever recorded."
The findings by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics refer to adult cigarette smokers in 2017.
A previous CDC report using 2016 data found that 15.5 per cent of adults smoked.
'Pakistan ranked 54th among 84 countries on tobacco smoking'
A half century ago, more than 40 percent of adults smoked in the United States.
Decades of health warnings have boosted public awareness that the addictive habit can cause lung and many other cancers, resulting in a declining number of smokers, experts say.
However, large disparities remain, with people living in rural areas still far more likely to smoke than city-dwellers, said the latest CDC report.
Sale of loose cigarettes banned across Pakistan
Just 11 percent of adults in a metro area of one million people or more smoke, compared to nearly 22 percent in rural areas, it said.
People living outside city centers also "had the highest rates of being obese, having experienced serious psychological distress during the past 30 days, or having diagnosed diabetes," said the report.
Just 13.9 per cent of the US population smokes cigarettes, according to a US government report Tuesday which said the American smoking rate has reached "the lowest level ever recorded."
The findings by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics refer to adult cigarette smokers in 2017.
A previous CDC report using 2016 data found that 15.5 per cent of adults smoked.
'Pakistan ranked 54th among 84 countries on tobacco smoking'
A half century ago, more than 40 percent of adults smoked in the United States.
Decades of health warnings have boosted public awareness that the addictive habit can cause lung and many other cancers, resulting in a declining number of smokers, experts say.
However, large disparities remain, with people living in rural areas still far more likely to smoke than city-dwellers, said the latest CDC report.
Sale of loose cigarettes banned across Pakistan
Just 11 percent of adults in a metro area of one million people or more smoke, compared to nearly 22 percent in rural areas, it said.
People living outside city centers also "had the highest rates of being obese, having experienced serious psychological distress during the past 30 days, or having diagnosed diabetes," said the report.