Smoking rate stalls in the U.S.

With all the recent news on the abolishment of smoking in public places continuing in the media to this day, a new government report states that last year, roughly 20.8 percent of American adults smoked. That rate has not changed much at all since 2004 as well.

Perhaps the 2007 to 2010 timeframe will see some drastic reductions in the American adult smoking rate (I'm crossing my fingers).

But, based on this most recent report, the decline in smoking from the past seven years has now stalled and it nor moving downward in any significant way. To give you toe cold, hard numbers from the report, here you go:

• Among current smokers in 2006, 80.1 percent (36.3 million) smoked every day
• 19.9 percent (9 million) smoked some days
• 44.2 percent of those smokers had stopped smoking for at least one day during the preceding year, because they were trying to quit