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A November report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that cigarette use among American adults is at the lowest it’s been since CDC started collecting data on the issue in 1965.
Brian King, senior author of the report and deputy director for research translation at CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health, said, “The good news is that cigarette smoking has reached unprecedented lows, which is a tremendous public health win, down to 14% from over 40% in the mid-1960s.”
According to the report, about 47.4 million Americans, or 19.3%, used any tobacco product in 2017. Data in the report is from the National Health Interview Survey, an annual, nationally representative, in-person survey of the noninstitutionalized US civilian population. The 2017 sample included 26,742 adults and had a response rate of 53%.