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Changes in cigarette smoking and current smoking practices among adults : United States, 1978
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September 19, 1979
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Source: Advance data from vital and health statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics ; no. 52
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Series: Advance Data
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Description:Since the 1950’s, the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adult males in the U.S. noninstitutionalized population has steadily declined. In contrast, the proportion of female smokers rose from the mid-fifties to the mid-sixties and since then, the rates have only dropped slightly. Furthermore, the smoking rates for men and women are more similar now than in earlier years. The average number of cigarettes consumed daily per smoker has nevertheless increased. Over one-half of the persons who currently smoke cigarettes have made at least one serious attempt ‘to stop. One in 5 smokers who tried to quit smoking in the past year were successful. Over one-fourth of cigarette smokers now use lower tar cigarettes.
Beginning in 1965, the National Center for Health Statistics has periodically included cigarette smoking questions in its household Health Interview Survey (HIS) conducted among the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population. The items selected for inclusion have identified the smoking status of the adult population and in some years have also elicited information on their smoking practices and attempts to quit smoking.
This report presents the latest available data on smoking for the 6-month period July 17, 1978, through January 14, 1979. These data were obtained in response to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare’s Office on Smoking and Health’s request for current prevalence estimates on cigarette smokers. (Provisional smoking estimates based on 9 weeks of these data appear in Smoking and Health, a report of the Surgeon General released earlier this year.) The 1978 HIS questionnaire contained items to identify current and former smokers. It included questions on’ approximate numbers of cigarettes presently smoked, numbers smoked during the period of heaviest consumption, and quitting attempts. Information needed to identify tar and nicotine levels of cigarettes most frequently smoked was also elicited.
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