Dirty Harryover 6 years ago

Cigarette smoking hits new low

Cigarette smoking has reached the lowest level ever recorded among U.S. adults – and the youth smoking rate dropped even farther, the federal government reported Thursday. About 14 percent of U.S. adults, or 34 million people, smoked cigarettes everyday or some days in the previous month, down from 15.5 percent in 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Cancer Institute. The new rate represents a 67 percent decline since 1965. About 10 percent of people aged 18 to 24 years smoked cigarettes in 2017, down from 13 percent in 2016. That would be heralded as a public health success if so many young people weren't become addicted to nicotine through electronic cigarettes, or vaping. Read full article...