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Kicking the Habit Of cigarette smokers, about 54 million light up regularly, 39 per cent of them adult men, 30 per cent adult women.
When last counted, in 1976, Americans puffed 626 billion cigarettes. Each smoker averaged 31.7 a day, or 11,600 a year—compared with 2,434 in 1948.
And on kicking the habit, Mark Twain may have been the first to say: “To quit smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; 1 ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times.”
Easy or otherwise, 33 million Americans have kicked it. Of those still dragging on their favorite weed, 61 per cent, or 32,940,000, have made at least one serious try at giving up, according to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Of the rest of America’s cigarette smokers, about half say they would like to quit when somebody comes up
91.3%