title: Trends in cigarette smoking in the United States. The epidemiology of tobacco use.
abstract: Cigarette smoking, an uncommon behavior in 1900, increased at an epidemic pace throughout this century, peaking in 1964 when more than 40% of all adult Americans smoked. Since that time, smoking has decreased at a slow but steady rate, falling to about 28% of all adults or 49 million smokers by 1988. Each year, approximately 435,000 Americans, or one of every five deaths, will result from smoking. If current trends continue, 22% of Americans (43 million people) will still be smoking in the year 2000. Women, blacks, and poorly educated Americans will be smoking at a disproportionately high rate.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Fiore
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D010947:Plants, Toxic; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology / Q000639:trends*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014030:Tobacco, Smokeless; D014481:United States