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Topic: Adult cigarette smoking reaches new low -- but stays stubbornly high among some groups
|βʒ| Meowth started this discussion 11 years ago#47,582
About 17% of American adults smoked cigarettes in 2014 -- approximately a 20% drop from the rate of adult smoking in 2005, according to figures released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That figure is the lowest recorded since cigarette smoking has been tracked by the agency.
Among those who still smoke, the number of cigarettes smoked daily has fallen to 13.8, down from 16.7 in 2005, the CDC said.
In 1965, 42.4% of American adults smoked, and though the habit's prevalence has declined steadily, reducing the ranks of the addicted has become an increasingly uphill battle.
The CDC report underscores that the smoking habit has been hardest to extinguish among several categories of American adults -- most notably, the poor. Only 12.9% of adults who have private health insurance continue to smoke cigarettes, but 29.1% of those on Medicaid, the federally funded insurance program for low-income Americans, were current smokers in 2014, the report said. Current smokers make up 27.9% of the uninsured.
FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 11 minutes later[^][v]#623,691
And eventually they'll die, and sooner than most of their non-poor contemporaries. Germany would be a nice place to live if it wasn't full of smokers. This is pretty much the only good thing America has accomplished in the long run.
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Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 9 minutes later, 21 minutes after the original post[^][v]#623,692
@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
Why do you hate freedom so much?
FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI replied with this 11 years ago, 8 minutes later, 29 minutes after the original post[^][v]#623,694
> And eventually they'll die, and sooner than most of their non-poor contemporaries. Germany would be a nice place to live if it wasn't full of smokers. This is pretty much the only good thing America has accomplished in the long run.
well yeah if you don't count inventing the electricity telephones television automobiles and saving everyone's ass in two world wars
oh and also the billions and billions it has given other countries in foreign aid over the last century
Anonymous I triple-posted this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^][v]#623,763
@623,691 (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
btw the reason germany is a good place to live now is the US helped them rebuild it after the war and ronnie reagen made them tear down the wall
Anonymous I quadruple-posted this 11 years ago, 46 seconds later, 7 hours after the original post[^][v]#623,764
the more you know
Anonymous K joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 hour later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#623,780
*lights cigarette*
Some of us are just excited about the impending death sentence and are tempting fate.
Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 19 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^][v]#623,793