Smoking rate among US adults drops to 15 percent

The quantity of cigarette smokers in the United States has dropped to around 15 percent of the populace, its most minimal point in decades, wellbeing powers said Tuesday.

"The commonness of ebb and flow cigarette smoking among US grown-ups declined from 24.7 percent in 1997 to 15.2 percent in January?March 2015," said the report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.

The figures will be upgraded once the whole year's information is accessible.

Smoking keeps on being more normal among men (17.4 percent) than ladies (13.0 percent), the report found.

Smoking is most basic among African Americans (18.1 percent), trailed by whites (17.1 percent) and Hispanics (10.4 percent).

As indicated by the US top health spokesperson, smoking is known not "a large group of diseases and different sicknesses is still the main preventable reason for death in the United States, slaughtering 480,000 individuals every year."

Smokers made up 42 percent of the US pop