Cigarette smoking is at an all time low in Louisiana. See the rates from the past decade.

Cigarette smoking, long-known for its adverse health effects and connection to lung cancers, is at its lowest usage across the United States since officials started tracking rates in 1990, according to America's Health Rankings .

Louisiana still ranks sixth highest in the nation for the percent of adults who smoke cigarettes .

Both national and statewide use of cigarettes is at an all-time low with only 15.7% of adults reporting cigarette use.

Nationally, over the past decade, the percentage of adults who reported smoking at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and currently smoke daily on some days in the nation has been on a steady decline. While in Louisiana, the numbers have been up and down from year to year, between 2013 and 2023, the overall rate is down is nearly 8 per