Just 11% say they are cigarette smokers, compared th 16% who consume marijuana
slightly more adults in America say they smoke marijuana than cigarettes, although alcohol remains the most commonly consumed drug, by far.
Meanwhile, cigarette use has steadily declined from the 1950s, when 45% of adults were smokers, Gallup said. Decades of medical research and anti-tobacco campaigns have convinced the public how dangerous smoking is. A 2019 Gallup poll foundThe “recognition of smoking’s downside is almost universal,” Gallup Senior Scientist Frank Newport wrote in an Aug. 26 article highlighting the findings of the poll.
Christine Delnevo, director of the Rutgers Center for Tobacco Studies said she saw good news in the survey.Laws that limit where people can smoke, raising taxes, as well as the age of people who may buy cigarettes are among the policies and laws that have driven down smoking rates, she said. As for the rise in cannabis consumption, Delnevo said public health researchers should keep a close eye on the health effects of smoking cannabis.
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