Despite progress in reducing the proportion of adults who smoke cigarettes, 36.5 million U.S. adults still smoke, according to the latest figures from the CDC.
The cigarette smoking rate among adults in the U.S. dropped from 20.9 percent in 2005 to 17.8 percent in 2013, according to new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
