Poll: Smoking Rates In D.C. Area Below Average
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 1:07PMAccording to a poll released today by Gallup, only 19 percent of Maryland, DC, and Virginia residents smoke as compared to the national average of 21 percent.
The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index data, which analyzed smoking rates by state between January and June 2011, showed Utah to have the least percentage of its residents as smokers, 11 percent, while Kentucky had the highest, 29 percent.
Smoking was higher in the South and mid-west than the rest of the country. A little more than one in four residents of Ohio, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana smoke, as compared to the North-East where no state has smokers comprise 20 percent of its inhabitants.
Hawaii and California were the closest states to Utah in smoking rates, with 16 percent and 15 percent respectively.
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