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Cigarette Smoking Among Adults-- United States, 1998
The Friday, October 6, 2000 issue of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
will contain a study titled “Cigarette Smoking Among Adults
- United States, 1998.” The study shows that 24.1% of adults currently
smoke in the United States. Adults with 16 or more years of education had the lowest smoking prevalence (11.3 percent) - reaching the
Healthy People 2010 goal of reducing smoking rates to no more than 12 percent.
Other study
findings
include
the
following:
- Young adults aged 18-24 years (27.9%) now appear to be smoking at a rate comparable to adults aged 25-44 years (27.5%). Historically,
young adults smoking prevalence was significantly lower than older adults. The recent increases among young adults may be attributed
to the aging of high school students whose smoking rates were high during the 1990s. It may also be an indicator for increased initiation
of smoking among young adults.
- Current smoking prevalence for racial/ethnic subgroups were highest among American Indians/Alaska Natives (40 percent) followed
by African-Americans (24.7 percent) and whites (25 percent) remained higher than among Hispanics (19.1 percent) and Asians/Pacific
Islanders (13.7 percent).
- Nearly 45 million adults (25.7 million men and 19.1 million women) were former smokers, which remains unchanged from 1995 and
1997. Of current adult smokers in 1998, more than 15 million quit smoking for at least one day during the year.
Cigarette Smoking Among Adults
— United States, 1998 — MMWR Highlights
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