U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Reduce current cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoking in adults — TU‑03 Data Methodology and Measurement

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About the National Data

Data

Data Source:  National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), CDC/NCHS

Baseline: 17.0 percent of adults aged 18 years and over used a combustible tobacco product every day or some days in 2019

Target: 5.0 percent

Numerator
Number of adults aged 18 years and over who used cigarettes; cigars, cigarillos, filtered little cigars; or regular pipes, water pipes, hookah and now use at least one tobacco product every day or some days.
Denominator
Number of adults aged 18 years and over.
Target-setting method
Maintain consistency with national programs, regulations, policies, or laws
Target-setting method justification
The target was selected to align with other national projections and comments from public requestors. This method was used because it is a more ambitious target that aligns with other national projections and comments from public requesters.

Methodology

Methodology notes

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+.

History

Revision History
Revised. 

In 2022, due to the 2019 NHIS redesign, the baseline was revised from 16.8% in 2018 to 17.0% in 2019.
The target remained 5.0% using the original target setting method of maintain consistency with national programs, regulations, policies, or laws.