Fewer adults are smoking, with only 17.8 percent of U.S.

December 5, 2014 at 1:17AM
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cigarette butte - shot of cigarette put out, over white with focus on bottom of butte (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

42.1 million: Smokers in 2013, or 17.8 percent of U.S. adults. That's the lowest percentage since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began keeping track in 1965.

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