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3/13/2009

Differences in tobacco marketing and promotion and tobacco-control programs are among the reasons why adult smoking rates are almost twice as high in some states as in others, according to a new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Rates of decline in adult smoking will probably be too slow in almost all states, other than Utah, to achieve the federal government's Healthy People 2010 goal of reducing adult smoking rates to 12 percent or less.