CDC NHIS finds sharpest annual decline in adult smoking to record low 15.2% in 1st Quarter of 2015

[Bill Godshall]

CDC NHIS finds sharpest annual decline in adult smoking to record low 15.2% in 1Q15 (down from 16.8% in 2014, and from 20.6% in 2009 when Obama’s DHHS unlawfully banned e-cigs and launched its War on vaping) as even more smokers switch to vaping; highlights pending public health disaster posed by FDA’s proposed Deeming Regulation (that would protect/promote cigarettes by banning >99.9% of all nicotine e-cig products)
Products - NHIS Early Release - 2015
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/earlyrelease201509_08.pdf

AVA: New CDC data shows smoking continues to fall as vaping increases
New CDC Data Shows Smoking Continues to Fall as Vaping Increases - The American Vaping Association

Two news stories so far
US adult smoking rate below 18 per cent in 2014: CDC | National Post
U.S. smoking rate drops to new low - CBS News

 

[JC Okie]

Thanks for posting this. Great news.

 

[TyPie]

Makes perfect sense to me!
The BAD news? Obesity is UP for those over 20 years of age for 2015. This is the 'new' health crisis of our time, I think. Watch those cakes and cookies, friends! AND, it is high time to go after diet soda. (It ain't working so well.......lol.)

 

[Digital Doctor]

by FDA’s proposed Deeming Regulation (that would protect/promote cigarettes by banning >99.9% of all nicotine e-cig products)

Which one is that ?

 

[nicnik]

CDC NHIS finds sharpest annual decline in adult smoking to record low 15.2% in 1Q15 (down from 16.8% in 2014, and from 20.6% in 2009 when Obama’s DHHS unlawfully banned e-cigs and launched its War on Vaping) as even more smokers switch to vaping; highlights pending public health disaster posed by FDA’s proposed Deeming Regulation (that would protect/promote cigarettes by banning >99.9% of all nicotine e-cig products)
Products - NHIS Early Release - 2015
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/earlyrelease201509_08.pdf

AVA: New CDC data shows smoking continues to fall as vaping increases
New CDC Data Shows Smoking Continues to Fall as Vaping Increases - The American Vaping Association

Two news stories so far
US adult smoking rate below 18 per cent in 2014: CDC | National Post
U.S. smoking rate drops to new low - CBS News

The NHIS stats show no good news regarding alcohol consumption, especially among women.

The American Vaping Association article points out how smoking rates stagnated for five years until vaping started to take hold, followed by five plus years of decline.

The National Post article adds this possibly important note: "The smoking rate was about 15 per cent for the first three months of this year. However, beginning-of-the-year survey data tends to be skewed by the temporary impact of New Year’s resolutions.

The CBS article is horrible. They say the FDA e-cig regulations will help bring further declines and quote this: "Experts don't know whether e-cigarettes have played a role in the reduction of the smoking rate, as there haven't been enough studies conducted to assess their impact." But, on the other hand, they credit all the draconian TC and BG policies, including the disgusting strategy of turning smokers into social pariahs for the declines, without any evidence except this quote: ""I hear from smokers all the time, 'When I can't smoke here, I can't smoke there, when people see me smoke they look at me like I'm a pariah -- it makes me want to not smoke anymore,' ".

 

[pianoguy]

Imagine how the smoking rates might decline if the gubbermint and alphabet soup organizations told the truth about e-cigarettes.

 

[sofarsogood]

Makes perfect sense to me!
The BAD news? Obesity is UP for those over 20 years of age for 2015. This is the 'new' health crisis of our time, I think. Watch those cakes and cookies, friends! AND, it is high time to go after diet soda. (It ain't working so well.......lol.)

Mark my words, tomorrow's headline, ecigs make you fat.

 

[nicnik]

Which one is that ?

Deeming them tobacco products, in itself, subjects vaping products to the February 2007 cutoff date for grandfathering in tobacco products, which was voted on by Congress and signed by the President. Nearly everything on the market, and every effective device will be forced off the market, requiring an impossibly expensive and extremely time consuming process for approval to renter the market, same as any new product. This is aside from any rules they put in place.

Rep. Tom Cole's bill (HR 2058, I think) would change that grandfathering date.

 

[sofarsogood]

Tobacco is strictly controlled in all 50 states so it should be possible to know cigarette sales with great precision. Does anybody know of a tobacco control website that reports month to month cigarette sales?

 

[CarolT]

Not according to Gallup polls. Those results have fluctuated between 19 and 22% since 2007. And best of all, the percentage who do NOT want to quit smoking has risen from 20% in 2011, to 24% in 2013, to 32% in 2014, to 42% in 2015. That is more than doubling of the proportion of the hard core!
Tobacco and Smoking | Gallup Historical Trends

 

[Bill Godshall]

The NHIS is a larger survey than Gallup polls.
And all other surveys found declining smoking rates.

 

[CarolT]

The NHIS is a larger survey than Gallup polls.
And all other surveys found declining smoking rates.

The NHIS uses personal household interviews, and poorer people and smokers are probably more likely to decline to participate.