#dangers of smoking

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Cigarette Smoking Rate in U.S. Ties 80-Year Low

— August 13, 2024 | By Jeffrey M. Jones

Story Highlights:

Rate Declines To 11% As Fewer Young Adults Smoke Cigarettes

Seven Percent of U.S. Adults Use E-Cigarettes

Majorities View Cigarettes, E-Cigarettes As Very Harmful

Washington, D.C. — Cigarette smoking in the U.S. is at a low point, according to eight decades of Gallup trends. Currently, 11% of U.S. adults say they have smoked cigarettes in the past week, matching the historical low measured in 2022 (and nearly matched at 12% in 2023). When Gallup first asked about cigarette smoking in 1944, 41% of U.S. adults said they smoked. The current smoking rate is about half as large as it was a decade ago and one-third as large as it was in the late 1980s.

The latest results are based on Gallup’s annual Consumption Habits poll, conducted July 1-21. Between the initial measurement of smoking in 1944 and 1974, at least four in 10 adults said they smoked cigarettes. Now, barely one in 10 do.

A major reason for the decline is that cigarette smoking has plummeted among young adults, who typically had been the most likely age group to smoke. Over the past three years, an average of 6% of adults under age 30 say they have smoked cigarettes in the past week, compared with 35% of young adults in 2001 through 2003 surveys.

Young adults are now less likely than other age groups to smoke cigarettes, as 13% of those between the ages of 30 and 49, 18% of those aged 50 to 64 and 9% of those 65 and older say they smoke.

Smoking continues to show a relationship to educational attainment, as 5% of college graduates and 15% of those without a college degree say they have smoked cigarettes, based on combined 2022-2024 data. The rates for both groups are significantly lower than in the past -- between 2001 and 2003, an average of 14% of college graduates and 30% of college nongraduates reported smoking.

Younger Adults More Likely To Smoke E-Cigarettes

Vaping is less common than cigarette smoking, with 7% of U.S. adults saying they have smoked electronic cigarettes or “vaped” in the past week. The percentage of vapers has been steady between 6% and 8% of U.S. adults in Gallup polls since 2019.

While young adults are now the age group least likely to smoke cigarettes, they are the group most likely to smoke e-cigarettes, according to combined 2022-2024 data. Eighteen percent of adults aged 18 to 29 vape, with the percentage declining among older age groups, down to 1% of those 65 and older.

There are small educational differences in vaping, with 5% of college graduates versus 9% of college nongraduates using e-cigarettes.

Most Americans View Cigarettes, E-Cigarettes As Very Harmful

The generally low rates of cigarette and e-cigarette usage may stem from the perception that these products can cause harm. Seventy-nine percent of U.S. adults say cigarettes are “very harmful” to people who use them; 57% say the same about e-cigarettes.

A majority of U.S. adults also consider chewing tobacco to be “very harmful” to its users, though fewer say this about cigars, pipes or nicotine pouches. Still, majorities of at least seven in 10 Americans believe all of these substances are at least “somewhat harmful.”

Americans who smoke are less inclined than nonsmokers to consider the substance they use as harmful. While 58% of cigarette smokers think cigarettes are very harmful, 80% of those who do not smoke cigarettes hold this view. And 63% of vapers think e-cigarettes are very harmful, compared with 79% of nonvapers.

There are not notable differences in perceived harm of cigarettes or e-cigarettes by age or educational attainment.

Bottom Line

Medical experts have long warned of the health dangers of smoking, and those educational efforts may be a factor in explaining why cigarette smoking is at an 80-year low. The most recent cohort of young adults are responsible for much of the change. They have bucked the historical trends whereby young adults have been most likely to smoke cigarettes.

However, today’s young adults may have substituted e-cigarettes for tobacco cigarettes, as roughly three times as many young adults vape as smoke cigarettes. Still, vaping rates among this group are lower than cigarette-smoking rates of young adults in the past.

Fewer U.S. adults vape than smoke cigarettes today, but if current age trends persist -- meaning today’s young adults continue to vape as they reach middle age, and today’s children vape at high rates when they reach adulthood -- vaping may soon surpass cigarette smoking as the more common activity. While vaping presents fewer health risks than tobacco smoking, public health officials would still prefer that U.S. adults not do either.

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The Silent Threat: How Smoking And Overwork Combine To Increase Stroke Risk

Are you aware of the silent threat lurking in the shadows of modern life, increasing the risk of a debilitating stroke? Could the combination of smoking and overwork be putting you on a dangerous path? In this comprehensive blog, we'll delve into the effects of smoking, the best ways to quit smoking, and how the twin demons of smoking and overwork can amplify the risk of a stroke. Join us as we explore the negative effects of quitting smoking, the benefits of stopping this deadly habit, and much more. So, let's start with a burning question: How can smoking and overwork harm your health?

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Rokok

Sigaret | Jenis | Bahan Kimia | Bahaya Rokok biasa juga disebut Sigaret, Merupakan Silinder dari Kertas yang berukuran panjang sekitar 70-120 mm. Variasi ukuran dari Rokok tergantung kepada negara pembuatnya. Diameter dari Silinder rokok sekitar 10 mm, isi dari silinder rokok diisi oleh daun tembakau kering yang telah dicacah. Rokok Rokok digunakan dengan cara dibakar pada salah satu ujungnya…

[magzrx]

evil car seat headrest be like start smoking we hate you get lung cancer idiot

[canisalbus]

I forget if you've covered this before, but do either of the boys smoke in the modern day version? My assumption is no, but I do think it would be cute for one to stop for the other's sake. I also think both would look extremely handsome doing it (until Machete breaks out into a coughing fit).

In modern au, Machete started stress smoking at around 14 or 15, initially prompted by peer pressure (he wanted to impress his friends, most of which seemed way cooler than him). He was never an incessant chain smoker but it was something he could do to manage his anxiety (or at least feel like he had some control over it). He continued until he met Vasco.

With Vasco's support, he managed to quit shortly after their relationship became serious, mostly out of fear of bothering his boyfriend with the smell. He still sometimes fidgets with the lighter when he's feeling agitated.

[montypng]

“olfactory memory: referring to the recollection of smells.”

[ID: a three page comic in a limited colour palette of black, white, purple, and yellow:

an unnamed killjoy lights a cigarette with a matchstick, leaving smoke trails. the girl, slightly older than in the music videos, turns to face them and says “hey. ya mind puttin’ that out?” the killjoy raises their eyebrows and replies “sheesh, ya got somethin’ against nic-sticks or what?”

a close-up of the girl’s mouth — she pauses, then says “…nah.” her speech bubble trails off into clouds of smoke, weaving through several objects: a revving motorcycle, a laser gun, bound sticks of dynamite, and, finally, a familiar hand holding a cigarette aloft, clad in a fingerless glove and string of bad luck beads.

purple smoke connects the last page to the previous, drawing the viewer’s eye downwards. on a black background, white text reads: “i just can’t stand the smoke.” the girl’s face is turned away, seemingly emotionless. a single tear drips down her chin. /end ID] 

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I'm back!! This is my First black parade art ever!!

[oldmemoria]

Sharing the lighting of a cigarette with my friend (we are very platonic and not gay)

Obligatory cigarette joke because being homophobic to myself is funny

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[bonkalore]

I have that Jayce had a band before he went missing that were together for a few years that he made with his older friend at the time named Odie.

Odie wasn't someone who knew about the magic world until he became a werewolf by an attack that happened in the span of the 5 years Jayce was missing unfortunately. Thankfully he found a good support group for the transition but it was all quite a shock to find out about it and also that Jayce was magic this whole time and now is ALSO a demon and ALIVE.

You can imagine they're surprise when they run into each other in their monster forms first and realize who the other is lol They get to catch up again at some point.

[mekanikaltrifle]

Clan Toreador headcanon: their bodies are just as cursed as Nosferatu, except instead of twisting into a sordid monster, they change against their will into beauty as their Sire sees it.

A perfectly regular looking person slowly finds their pores minimising and seemingly vanishing, their face bones realigning, disturbing symmetry intruding into a face they once knew, and every night they become more and more a picture of what someone else wants, and less themselves. 

Beauty as a weapon, but also beauty as a purely subjective horror. You are not yourself, and you never will be again. You’re an object, a treasure, a prize for someone else, always someone else, and never living for yourself again, because someone else wanted to make you beautiful.

[cozystars]

tee hee

[zu-is-here]

Rose

Fluffynightkiller Week by @help-im-a-gay-fish

Mobster AU by help-im-a-gay-fish & jann-the-bean

Ccino by black-nyanko

Nightmare by jokublog

Killer by rahafwabas / rahaf-wabas / rahofy-sketch

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genuinely so many of you want to be leftist and "punk" and countercultural soooooo bad but you refuse to become comfortable with the concept of people taking drugs for fun because they like it and not because they were somehow tricked or forced into it without knowing what they were getting themselves into

you'll be like "addiction is a disease!!" but think you're better than those degenerate stoners because you only drink energy drinks and white claws and would never touch "illegal drugs"

many if not most drugs CAN be consumed completely safely with almost 0 risk to the user and even if that werent true and all drugs were extremely dangerous you still wouldn't be better than those of us who love doing drugs recreationally

lighten up and grow up. get offline, talk to real adults, and stop being shocked to discover that they enjoy doing stuff that adults do like have sex and do drugs and even listen to rock and roll