The biggest variables are tobacco quality, moisture, and pack density
Graduate student, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alabama
Although increased calls for federal, state, and local legislationon taxes, warning labels, teenage access to tobacco, and advertising restrictionshave stimulated greater public dialogue, these are less effective steps toward reducing demand for tobacco products than are major paid campaigns in the mass media to undermine the tobacco industry and its brand name products
adults who admit to smoking has steadily declined since the 1940s and 1950s and has dropped sharply since the beginning of the 21st century
A variety of factors contribute to these regional and state-by-state disparities