The latest survey data from the CDC, collected over last year, reveal an ongoing salutary trend in our nation s adult smoking rate: it is now down to 17.8 percent, as compared to 2012 s 18.1 percent. Unfortunately, the number of adult smokers remains in the low 40 millions, and the number who smoke daily was about 32 million in 2013, not much different from the 2012 results: 33 million.
The barely-perceptible decline in adult smoking rates over...