The considerable drop in the overall adult smoking rate over time shows marked progress toward achieving the Healthy People 2020 goal of reducing the cigarette smoking rate to 12 percent or lower.
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Between 2013 and 2014 alone, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says cigarette smoking declined a full percentage point.
“Smoking e-cigarettes is more and more popular with kids at my school”, said Aubrianna Weber, age 16, of Olean, the Reality Check 2015 Western NY State Youth Advocate of the Year. Adults who are uninsured or on Medicaid smoke at more than double the rates of those with private health insurance or Medicare.
It also will promote the Ohio Tobacco Quit Line (1-800-QUIT-NOW) for free help to qualified callers. He was smoking up to 40 cigarettes a day, but has since gone to rehab and no longer smokes.
But as of 2014, 40 million USA adults are still cigarette smokers, defined as people who have smoked 100 or more cigarettes in their lifetime and now smoke “every day or a few days”.
“There has been no evidence that a smoker is exposed to less chemicals and poisons after switching to slim cigarettes”, said Wu, one of China’s most prominent anti-smoking campaigners.
“These findings underscore the importance of ensuring that proven strategies to prevent and reduce tobacco use reach the entire population, particularly vulnerable groups”, said Brian King, Ph.D., deputy director for research translation, CDC Office on Smoking and Health, reported in the news release. The online advertising borrows from themes used in a similar campaign past year that the Department of Health coordinated with the U.S. Department of Defense.
According to Business Standard on Tuesday, the current commercial being broadcasted shows ballet dancers who manifest the side effects of smoking through their dance movements. Prevalence among lesbian, gay or bisexual adults was 23.9 percent compared to 16.6 percent for those who are heterosexual. It continues to be one of America’s costliest habits.
“While I’m well aware of the perception that we should not fall prey to the machinations of tobacco lobbyists, we should also be reminded that tobacco companies have moved into e-cigarettes and most e-cigarettes are now manufactured by tobacco companies”, he said.
A new joint statement on e-cigarettes recently issued by the British organization Public Health England and a dozen public health groups, proclaims vapor products and e-cigarettes to be far less hazardous than cigarettes as well as an effective tool for quitting cigarettes.
– The rate of smokers with a high school degree fell by 12 percent (the rate was at 22 percent). This was true a decade ago.
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On its website, the CDC warns LGBT people, “If you are part of the LGBT communities, you likely have seen tobacco ads in magazines, newspapers, and websites directed at you”.
