Oklahoma has seen a significant decrease in the number of adults who smoke cigarettes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.
In 2011, 26 percent of Oklahoma adults 18 and older smoked cigarettes. By 2013, that number decreased to about 24 percent. Most popular cigarettes brand is Marlboro Micro http://www.mydiscountcigarette.net/buy/marlboro/micro
Oklahoma health officials celebrated this decline last year, when Oklahoma saw its smoking rate go from about 26 percent to 23 percent. (To be technical, the 2011 rate was 26.1 percent, the 2012 rate was 23.3 percent and the 2013 rate was 23.7 percent).
That said, Oklahoma still has one of the highest adult smoking rates in the U.S.
In 2013, only West Virginia (27.3 percent), Kentucky (26.5 percent), Arkansas (25.9 percent) and Mississippi (24.8 percent) had higher adult smoking rates.
For years, Oklahoma has struggled with high rates of smoking-related diseases, such as COPD, lung cancer, stroke and heart disease.
As the CDC report notes:
Current cigarette smoking ranged from almost 12 percent in Utah to 29 percent in Kentucky in 2011 and from about 10 percent in Utah to about 27 percent in West Virginia in 2013.
During 2011-2013, current cigarette smoking declined significantly in 26 states: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming. No significant changes were observed in any other states.
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