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
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