Prevalence of maternal smoking before pregnancy by 2014

This statistic shows the average number of cigarettes smoked per day by pregnant women in the U.S. who said they smoked before or during pregnancy in 2014, by ethnicity. It was found that white women who said they smoked 3 months before their pregnancy smoked an average of 14 cigarettes a day.

Average number of cigarettes smoked per day by pregnant women in the U.S. before and during pregnancy in 2014, by ethnicity

Characteristic	All races**	White	Black	Asian	American Indian or Alaska Native	Hispanic
Smoked 3 months before pregnancy	13	14	10	9	10	10
Quit before pregnancy*	10	11	9	8	8	8
Did not quit before pregnancy	14	15	11	10	11	11

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Release date

February 2016

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2014

Number of respondents

3,819,113 respondents

Supplementary notes

Figures include smokers only.
*Includes women who reported smoking in the 3 months before pregnancy and did not report smoking during pregnancy; see Methods. **Include other races not shown and origin not stated.
NOTE: The revised reporting area excludes Connecticut, Hawaii, New Jersey, and Rhode Island and represents 95% of all U.S. births in 2014.

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