Do more educated people smoke fewer cigarettes?


by SavvyRoo on Nov 1, 2014 | Views: 171 | Score: 1
% of people who smoked some days
GED41.9
Less than high school24.7
High school graduate23.1
Some college20.9
Associate degree17.9
Undergraduate degree9.1
Postgraduate degree5.9
Sources: cdc.gov
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SavvyRoo
SavvyRoo on Oct 20, 2014 9:07 PM said:

Smoking cigarettes is terrible for your health. So, it makes sense that with higher levels of education the percent of people who smoke goes down. However, people who have a GED break this trend by smoking more cigarettes, on average, than people with less than a high school education.