(Washington, DC) — Cigarette smoking in the U.S. is returning to an 80-year low.
In a new Gallup poll released on Tuesday, eleven-percent of U.S. adults said they had smoked cigarettes in the past week. That matched the historic low mark measured in 2022. The smoking rate is now around half as large as a decade ago. In 1944, the first Gallup poll about cigarette smoking found 41-percent of American adults smoked.
Gallup says a major part of the continued decline in smoking rates is the dropping number of young adults who light up.
