The popularity of smoking in the US has been falling steadily for more than 50 years. According to Gallup polls, almost half of all adults were smokers in the 1940s and 50s. In 2013, only 18% of American adults claimed to be smokers. This shift in behavior is probably the result of a lot of things, from the increased revelation of smoking as an unhealthy habit to the increased price of cigarettes through extra taxes on tobacco.
As of today, I have an additional piece of data to through into the ring-- roughly one third to one half of Greyhound bus passengers are smokers. The sample size of this study was admittedly small, but before today, I hadn't seen any smokers at all for weeks. It was an interesting trip.
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