CDC: US rate of smoking down 1% to 22.1% among adults last year
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A spokeswoman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the overall smoking rate among adults was 22.1 percent last year, a decline of just one percentage point from the previous year.
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The U.S. government's effort to cut the  adult smoking rate to 12 percent or less by 2010 will fail  unless most states increase funding for anti-tobacco programs,  federal health officials said on Wednesday.
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BOSTON -- The level of nicotine found in U.S. cigarettes has risen about 10 percent in the past six years, making it harder to quit and easier to get hooked, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Massachusetts Department of Health.
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Aggressive efforts to curb smoking led to a sharp drop in the number of smokers in New York City in the past few years, U.S. health experts said on Thursday.
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Kids and teenagers exposed to even trace amounts of secondhand smoke score lower on tests of reading and reasoning, according to new research.
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THE TREND: Low-carbohydrate diets were wildly popular a year ago, but interest has waned. A study by NPD Group, an independent marketing information company, found that the percentage of American adults on any low-carb diet in 2004 peaked at 9.1 percent in February and dropped to 4.9 percent by early November.
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The number of people admitted to hospital with heart attacks dropped 17 percent after smoking was banned in public places in Scotland in March 2006, authorities said Monday.
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As many as 1.2 million smokers in England could try to quit smoking in the New Year, figures suggest.
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Smokers of hand-rolled cigarettes tend to consume less tobacco, but face a greater risk of developing lung cancer than those who smoke manufactured cigarettes, a study on Norwegian lung cancer patients has found.
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A national health report released Monday shows that progress in the nation&#39;s overall healthiness is slowing dramatically and even declining in some areas -- a trend that&#39;s reflected locally.
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Philip Morris USA, a division of Manhattan&#39;s Altria Group and the largest US maker of cigarettes, announced Friday that it will cut discounts on its Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Basic and Parliament brands--the first time in two years the company has
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High school students in New Jersey were smoking, drinking, doing drugs and having sex less in 2005 than high school students in 2001, according to a survey released Tuesday.
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Government curbs on secondhand smoke in New York led to nearly 4,000 fewer hospital admissions for heart attacks in 2004, according to a new statewide study.
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The good news is, the number of adult Americans who smoke cigarettes continues to decrease. The bad news is, more than 1 in 5 Americans still are smokers, according to a new report from the
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The U.S. isn't the only country cutting back on public smoking
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Smoking is forbidden in nearly three out of four U.S. households, a dramatic increase from the 43 percent of homes that prohibited smoking a decade ago
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Cigarette smoking causes approximately 440,000 deaths annually in the United States (1). To assess the prevalence of current cigarette smoking among adults, CDC analyzed data from the 2003 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey.