According to a new survey, the numbers of teenage smokers across the U.S have decreases drastically with only 9 percent of the teenage population smoking.
Teenage smoking had become a cult in the new generation. However, there's good news now. According to a new study and a new federal government report, the number of teens in the U.S. who smoke have reduced to a great extend with only under 9 percent of the total teenage population still smoking.
According to the report the number of smokers in the age group 12 to 17 in the U.S saw a significant decrease, especially between 2002 and 2010 in 41 states. While Wyoming has the highest rate of smokers, Utah has the lowest number of smokers in the country.
Over the last eight years, teenagers have cut down their smoking habits from 12.6 percent to only 8.7 percent, which is nearly a 50 percent decline. This different is more significant in youngsters across the different states of the country. While Wyoming has 13.5 percent teen smokers, Utah has just under 6 percent.
"Although this report shows that considerable progress has been made in lowering adolescent cigarette smoking, the sad, unacceptable fact remains that in many states about one in 10 adolescents smoked cigarettes in the past month," SAMHSA administrator Pamela Hyde said in an agency news release.
"The report also shows that we must collectively redouble our efforts to better educate adolescents about the risks of tobacco and continue to work with every state and community to promote effective tobacco use prevention and recovery programs."
The press release noted that over 15 years, tobacco sales to young adults reduced from about 40 percent to 8.5 percent.
