QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged ≥18 Years Who Were Current Smokers,* by White or Black Race and Hispanic Subpopulation† — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2010§

QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged ≥18 Years Who Were Current Smokers,* by White or Black Race and Hispanic Subpopulation† — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2010§

Weekly

* Current smokers have smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and currently smoke cigarettes. Unknowns were not included in the denominators when calculating percentages.

† All whites and blacks were non-Hispanic. Persons of Hispanic ethnicity might be of any race or combination of races.

§ Estimates are based on household interviews of a sample of the U.S. civilian, noninstitutionalized population. Estimates are age-adjusted using the projected 2000 U.S. population as the standard population and using four age groups: 18–44 years, 45–64 years, 65–74 years, and ≥75 years.

¶ 95% confidence interval.

Overall, 12.2% of Hispanic adults were current cigarette smokers, compared with 21.7% of non-Hispanic white adults and 19.8% of non-Hispanic black adults. Among five Hispanic subpopulations, Central or South American adults (7.2%) were less likely to be current smokers compared with Mexican adults (12.0%), Puerto Rican adults (16.9%), Cuban adults (14.5%), and other Hispanic adults (17.7%).

Source: National Health Interview Survey, 2010 data. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm.

Reported by: Gulnur Freeman, MPA, gfreeman1@cdc.gov, 301-458-4085; Patricia F. Adams.

Alternate Text: The figure above shows the percentage of adults aged ≥18 years who were current smokers, by white or black race and Hispanic subpopulation, in the United States during 2010, according to the National Health Interview Survey. Overall, 12.2% of Hispanic adults were current cigarette smokers, compared with 21.7% of non-Hispanic white adults and 19.8% of non-Hispanic black adults. Among five Hispanic subpopulations, Central or South American adults (7.2%) were less likely to be current smokers compared with Mexican adults (12.0%), Puerto Rican adults (16.9%), Cuban adults (14.5%) and other Hispanic adults (17.7%).

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