Opinion Less than 10 percent now smoke, but we're still far from finished AOL The Public Health Triumph No One's Talking About American Enterprise Institute AEI E cigarettes & vaping statistics & facts Allen Carr's Easyway Smoking in America: Why more Americans are kicking the habit American Heart Association Associations between vaping and daily cigarette consumption among individuals with psychological distress In 1980, roughly a third of American adults still smoked. Now here's a figure from 2024: 9.9 percent. That's the share of American adults who smoke cigarettes, according to data from the