{"id":34046,"date":"2018-07-28T11:59:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T15:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=34046"},"modified":"2018-07-28T11:59:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T15:59:20","slug":"infographic-u-s-smoking-rate-hits-new-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=34046","title":{"rendered":"Infographic – U.S. Smoking Rate Hits New Low"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Share of Americans who smoked a cigarette in the previous week. Click on image for full-size view. (Statista)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

28 July 2018. News about research on cancer<\/a> is perhaps the single most covered medical condition on Science & Enterprise. While many new technologies and therapies are discovered to detect and treat various types of cancer, changes in lifestyle can help hold off a cancer diagnosis, beginning with a stop to smoking. And not only cancer, but smoking cessation can also reduce heart disease and respiratory diseases such as COPD.<\/p>\n

That message is sinking in, according to new data from the Gallup organization<\/a>, this weekend’s infographic. These data, displayed in a chart published yesterday by our friends at Statista<\/a>, show fewer than 1 in 6 Americans, or 16 percent, smoked a cigarette in the past week. In 1954, according to Gallup, nearly half (45%) were lighting up in the previous week.<\/p>\n

The reduction in cigarette smoking is particularly evident among younger people. In 2000, about 1 in 3 (34%) of people age 18 to 29 smoked a cigarette in the previous week. By 2018 that rate has been cut by more than half, to 15 percent.<\/p>\n

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