Current and former smokers were asked for the age at which they started smoking and the number of cigarettes smoked during the period of highest smoking.
In conclusion, the Mosaic classification system has been found to be a useful tool in examining the disparities in smoking prevalence between different socioeconomic groups within the UK, with those in the group with the highest smoking prevalence being over four times as likely to smoke as those in the group with the lowest prevalence.
The highest smoking rate, 30.9percentt, was in Kentucky; the lowest was Utah, which had 13.3percentt.
And Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, had the highest smoking rate of all the neighborhoods singled out in the survey, at 24.5 percent.
China has among the world's highest smoking rates, with nearly one-third of all adults lighting up.
There were also notable declines among blacks, women and residents of Staten Island, the borough that has long had the highest smoking rates.
With top performers pushing tobacco to children, and few laws to regulate tobacco, it's not surprising that Indonesia has the highest smoking rate for males in the world.
Quebecers' tolerance of smoking, and the presence here of three out of four of Canada's largest tobacco companies, translated into the nation's highest smoking rate, 32percentt of the teenage and adult population.
Dr. Guinan, the state health officer, said she cannot fathom why Nevada has the highest smoking rate among women, for example, which drives its overall rate to the highest in the nation.
People ages 18 to 25 now have the nation's highest smoking rate: about 34 percent counted in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health in 2010 reported smoking cigarettes in the previous month.
The lower house of Parliament passed a bill on Tuesday that would ban smoking in public places, a contentious measure in a country with one of the world's highest smoking rates.
