Smoking Rates In U.S. Hit All-Time Low, CDC Says

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NEW YORK (CBS Local/CBS News) – Smoking in the U.S. has hit another all-time low.
About 14 percent of U.S adults admit to being smokers last year, down from about 16 percent in 2016, government figures from the CDC show.
There hadn’t been much change the previous two years, but it’s been clear there’s been a general decline and the new figures show it’s continuing, according to K. Michael Cummings of the tobacco research progr