Cigarette smoking rate among Americans is near an all time low, Gallup’s latest update on cigarette smoking finds.<\/p>\n
The update is part of Gallup’s annual Consumption Habits survey, conducted during July 3-27.<\/p>\n
Twelve percent of U.S. adults who were surveyed said they smoked cigarettes in the past week, similar to the 11 percent measured a year ago but significantly lower than any other year in Gallup’s nearly 80-year trend.<\/p>\n
Gallup said that when they first asked about cigarette smoking in 1944, 41 percent of U.S. adults said they smoked. A decade later, a historical high of 45 percent was reached. From then, smoking rates gradually descended, falling permanently below 30 percent in 1989 and 20 percent in 2015.<\/p>\n