Smoking stats from the CDC

The Centers for Disease Control recently published its 2005 smoking statistics -- some highlights:

The annual prevalence of current smoking among U.S. adults declined from 24.7% in 1997 to 20.9% in 2005.

For both sexes combined, the percentage of adults who were current smokers was lower among adults aged 65 years and over (10.4%) than among adults aged 18–44 years (24.0%) and 45–64 years (21.7%). This pattern in current smoking by age group was seen in both men and women.

Non-Hispanic white adults and non-Hispanic black adults were more likely than Hispanic adults to be current smokers.

Click here to access all of the smoking data from the January-September 2006 National Health Interview Survey.