[eXe]

"That's because smokers are less educated and younger than non-smokers. It figures that they would make less money. As people get smarter and wiser with age they are less likely to smoke."

I find that to be exactly the opposite here in NV. The younger people (after years and years of brainwashing) don't smoke, yet the older people ALL smoke. Funny, they said if we smoked we would never reach a ripe old age..

Smokers less educated? Sound like more of that brainwashing I was talking about. I guess you feel that if you say something long enough it magically becomes "true"

[Moonman62]

The national percentage of all people who smoke is 20%. For people with a GED it's 40%. For people with an undergraduate degree it's 10%. For people with a graduate degree it's 7%.

Over half of people who have ever smoked eventually quit. Only 8% of people over 65 smoke.

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/factsheets/AdultCigaretteSmoking_FactSheet.htm