Utah and California, the nation’s lowest proportion of smokers

According to network news online tobacco According to statistics recently released U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the percentage of smokers in California and Utah the lowest in all 50 states, only 9.1 percent of the state of Utah people smoking, as the nation’s lowest; California smoking population accounts Statewide 12.9% for the penultimate. Professor of epidemiology at the University of California, San Diego Wa Aier · Aldi Raimi (Wael Al-Delaimy) According to a sample survey carried out by him believe that it is this series of restrictive measures to make California smokers feel increasingly inconvenient, thereby facilitating the Californians under determined to quit smoking.

1995, first announced in the U.S. in California, ban smoking in many public places; 1998 announced smoking in restaurants and bars. Later, some of the tourism industry in developed coastal cities in California and even the beaches, sidewalks and parks are also included in the smoking area.

Aldi Raimi for nearly a year, to 1718 survey of California smokers. Respondents “pipe” who verify that if a family member in the family range against the smoking cessation determination went down fast, the next was resolute; If the family gave smokers “lenient” leaving a place, “Smoking area “(such as a study or balcony, etc.), is not so easy to quit under determination.

The findings showed that the proportion of smokers differ by gender: 21.6% of men are smokers, and women, only 16.5% of smokers. Smokers and education is inversely proportional to the higher education of the population, the lower the proportion of smokers. There are people reading at the University of smokers by 9.9%, with graduate qualifications only 6.3% of people smoking, the proportion of smokers who have not graduated from high school up to 25.1%.

From a geographic perspective, smoking is the most popular place in the Mississippi River in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma and neighboring states, in addition to the Midwest, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky not much better, the seven states “smokers” accounted for 22-27 percent of the state population, respectively.Western states in general lower proportion of smokers, and the lowest was in Utah and California.

Annual Statistics of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, said the United States each year there are 43.8 million smokers, smokers in the highest proportion of Indians, up 31.5 percent, followed by whites (20.6 percent), followed sequentially Africa Hispanic (19.4 percent), Hispanics (12.9 percent). Asian and Pacific Islander smokers in the lowest proportion of ethnic, only 9.9%. Given the United States each year there are over 40 million people die of diseases caused by smoking or second-hand smoke, all researchers have advocated continue to promote smoking.