WASHINGTON: United States of America health authorities have claimed that smoking rate among US youth dropped to 15 percent.
“The prevalence of current cigarette smoking among US adults declined from 24.7 percent in 1997 to 15.2 percent in January-March 2015,” said the report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
Smoking continues to be more common among men (17.4 percent) than women (13.0 percent), the report found.
The report said that 17.4 percent American men and 13 percent women were smoking addict. While smoking is most common among African Americans (18.1 percent), followed by whites (17.1 percent) and Hispanics (10.4 percent).
According to the US surgeon general, smoking is known to cause “a host of cancers and other illnesses and is still the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, killing 480,000 people each year.”
