14% of US adults still smoke, a record low, statistics show

Smoking in the U.S. has hit another all-time low. About 14 percent of U.S adults were smokers last year, down from about 16 percent the year before, government figures show.

There hadn’t been much change the previous two years, but it’s clear there’s a general decline and the new figures show it’s continuing, K. Michael Cummings of the tobacco research program at Medical University of South Carolina said.