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Cigarette Smoking Among Adults — United States, 2000
MMWR Highlights
July 26, 2002 / Vol. 51 / No. 29
- In 2000, approximately 23.3 percent of adults were current smokers; this was a decline from 25 percent in 1993.
- Preliminary data for 2001 indicate a continuing decline in current smoking among adults to 22.8 percent.
- During 1993–2000, substantial reductions in current smoking prevalence were reported for all age groups, except those aged 18-24 years.
- According to the 2000 National Health Interview Survey, 70 percent of adult smokers in the United States wanted to quit smoking.
- In 2000, 41 percent of adult smokers in the United States stopped smoking for at least one day because they were trying to quit.
- The percentage of ever smokers who had quit was highest for whites at 51 percent and lowest for non-Hispanic blacks at 37.3 percent.
- The percentage of those who had ever smoked and who had quit ranged from 33.6 percent for those with a GED to 74.4 percent for those with a graduate degree.
- Nearly half of the ever smokers above the poverty line had quit. Barely a third of ever smokers below the poverty line had similar success in quitting.
- Only 4.7 percent of those who had quit smoking in past year were able to maintain abstinence from smoking for
3–12 months.
Cigarette Smoking Among Adults - United States,
2000
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