Smokers and education
Adults with 16 or more years of education had the lowest smoking prevalence (11.3 percent). Adults with 9 to 11 years of education had higher smoking prevalence (36.8 percent) compared to adults with fewer or more years of education.
Smokers by socio-economic status
Smoking prevalence was higher among adults living below the poverty level (32.3 percent) than those living at or above the poverty level (23.5 percent).
Smokers by states
State-specific smoking prevalence among adults varied more than twofold in 1999, ranging from a low of 13.9 percent in Utah to a high of 31.5 percent in Nevada.
The states with the highest current smoking prevalence among adults were Nevada (31.5 percent), Kentucky (29.7 percent) and Ohio (27.6 percent). The lowest smoking prevalence rates among adults were found in Utah (13.9 percent), followed by Hawaii (18.6 percent), California (18.7 percent), Massachusetts (19.4 percent) and Minnesota (19.5 percent). Smoking prevalence in