{"id":2190,"date":"2014-04-21T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2014-04-21T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T14:04:08","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-25-or-older-who-were-current-smokers-or-current-regular-drinkers-by-education-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/04\/21\/2190\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged 25 or Older Who Were Current Smokers or Current Regular Drinkers by Education Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6315a8.htm?s_cid=mm6315a8_e\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/figures\/m6315qsf.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among adults aged 25\u00a0or older\u00a0in 2012, 26.5% of those who did not graduate from high school and 26.4% who had a high school diploma or GED were current smokers, compared with 19.7% who had attended some college and 7.9% with a college degree. In contrast, 64.2% of college graduates were current regular drinkers, compared with 52.3% of adults with some college, 47.3% of high school graduates or GED recipients, and 35.3% of adults who did not finish high school.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6315a8.htm?s_cid=mm6315a8_e\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6315a8.htm?s_cid=mm6315a8_e<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among adults aged 25\u00a0or older\u00a0in 2012, 26.5% of those who did not graduate from high school and 26.4% who had a high school diploma or GED were current smokers, compared with 19.7% who had attended some college and 7.9% with a college degree. In contrast, 64.2% of college graduates were current regular drinkers, compared with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}