In 2021, around 24 percent of men in the United States used some tobacco product, compared to just 14 percent of women. This statistic displays the percentage of U.S. adults that used various tobacco products in 2021, by gender.
Percentage of U.S. adults that used various forms of tobacco products in 2021, by gender
* Any tobacco use was defined as use either “every day” or “some days” of at least one tobacco product among individuals (for cigarettes, users were defined as
persons who reported use either “every day” or “some days” and had smoked ≥100 cigarettes during their lifetime).
** Any combustible tobacco use was defined as use either “every day” or “some days” of at least one combustible tobacco product: cigarettes; cigars, cigarillos,
filtered little cigars; pipes, water pipes, or hookah (for cigarettes, users were defined as persons who reported use either “every day” or “some days” and had
smoked ≥100 cigarette during their lifetime).
*** Current cigarette smokers were defined as persons who reported smoking ≥100 cigarettes during their lifetime and now smoked cigarettes “every day” or “some days.”
**** Reported smoking cigars, cigarillos, or little filtered cigars at least once during their lifetime and now smoked at least one of these products “every day” or “some days.”
^ Reported smoking tobacco in a regular pipe, water pipe, or hookah at least once during their lifetime and now smoked at least one of these products “every day”
or “some days.”
^^ Reported using electronic cigarettes at least once during their lifetime and now used e-cigarettes “every day” or “some days.”
^^^ Reported using chewing tobacco, snuff, dip, snus, or dissolvable tobacco at least once during their lifetime and now used at least one of these products “every
day” or “some days.
^^^^Current multiple tobacco product users were defined as adults who reported use “every day” or “some days” for at least two or more of the following tobacco products: cigarettes (≥100 cigarettes during lifetime); cigars, cigarillos, filtered little cigars; pipes, water pipes, or hookah; e-cigarettes; or smokeless tobacco products.
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MMWR, & CDC. (May 5, 2023). Percentage of U.S. adults that used various forms of tobacco products in 2021, by gender [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved October 08, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/783567/tobacco-product-use-among-adults-by-gender/
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MMWR, CDC. (2023). Percentage of U.S. adults that used various forms of tobacco products in 2021, by gender. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: October 08, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/783567/tobacco-product-use-among-adults-by-gender/
MMWR, and CDC. "Percentage of U.S. Adults That Used Various Forms of Tobacco Products in 2021, by Gender." Statista, Statista Inc., 5 May 2023, https://www.statista.com/statistics/783567/tobacco-product-use-among-adults-by-gender/
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Percentage of U.S. adults that used various forms of tobacco products in 2021, by gender [Graph], MMWR, & CDC, May 5, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/783567/tobacco-product-use-among-adults-by-gender/