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About the National Data
Data
Data source: National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), CDC/NCHS
Baseline: 16.8 percent of adults aged 18 years and over used a combustible tobacco product every day or some days in 2018
Target: 5.0 percent
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Methodology
Combustible tobacco products include cigarettes, regular cigars, cigarillos, or little filtered cigars, regular pipes, water pipes, or hookahs. For cigarettes, users were defined as persons who reported smoking either "every day" or "some days" and had smoked at least 100 cigarettes during their lifetime. This indicator uses age-adjustment groups: 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-64, 65+.