Maybe Gallup just happened to call while President Obama was vacationing back home…. That’s 6.5% fewer smokers today than in 2008.Īnd while smoking rates decreased in nearly every state of the Union between 2008 and today, they ticked up ever so slightly in one: Hawaii, where 19.4% of the population smokes. The state where the smoking rate has fallen most since 2008 (the first year Gallup gathered sufficient data on the question) is Alaska, where 18.7% of the population smokes. In all, 19.7% of Americans smoke cigarettes according to Gallup, down from 21.1% in 2008. The state with the nations lowest smoking rate, 12.2%, is Utah, where six in ten residents identify as Mormon, a religion with a strict prohibition against smoking. In Kentucky, 30.2% of residents smoke cigarettes, narrowly beating out nearby West Virginia’s smoking rate of 29.9%.
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