Ok. I don’t give a crap if folks smoke or not. I certainly do not tie it to intelligence. It is more of a rebellion factor regardless of education or wealth.
Get real ansell2
Smoking is rare among the educated.
Among adults over age 25, those with General Education Development (GED) diploma have the highest prevalence of current smoking (44%), followed by those with 9 to 11 years of education (33.3%). Those who had an undergraduate degree (11.4%) or graduate degree (6.2%) had the lowest smoking prevalence.
1 • Lower education levels are associated with significantly higher rates of smoking during pregnancy. Nearly 24% of women with 9-11 years of education smoked while pregnant compared with 15% of those with 12 years of education and 1.5% of those with 16 or more years of education.5