The percentage of the population that smokes varies by state in the United States. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for 2020, the state with the highest smoking prevalence is West Virginia, where 22.6% of the adult population smokes. The state with the lowest smoking prevalence is Utah, where only 8.6% of the adult population smokes.
Here is a list of the smoking prevalence by state, ranked from highest to lowest:
- West Virginia - 22.6%
- Kentucky - 20.7%
- Arkansas - 20.3%
- Oklahoma - 19.7%
- Mississippi - 18.4%
- Indiana - 17.8%
- Louisiana - 17.6%
- Missouri - 17.2%
- Alabama - 17.1%
- Tennessee - 16.8%
- Ohio - 16.1%
- Wyoming - 15.9%
- North Carolina - 15.8%
- South Carolina - 15.6%
- Iowa - 15.5%
- Georgia - 15.1%
- Kansas - 14.9%
- Michigan - 14.9%
- Arizona - 14.8%
- Montana - 14.6%
- Nevada - 14.5%
- South Dakota - 14.4%
- North Dakota - 14.3%
- Wisconsin - 14.2%
- Pennsylvania - 14.1%
- Nebraska - 13.9%
- Idaho - 13.8%
- Texas - 13.7%
- Illinois - 13.6%
- Maine - 13.5%
- Virginia - 13.4%
- New Hampshire - 13.3%
- Florida - 12.8%
- Colorado - 12.5%
- Oregon - 11.9%
- Washington - 11.9%
- California - 11.7%
- New Mexico - 11.3%
- Maryland - 10.9%
- Minnesota - 10.8%
- Massachusetts - 10.4%
- New York - 10.3%
- Rhode Island - 10.1%
- Connecticut - 10.0%
- Vermont - 9.9%
- New Jersey - 9.7%
- Delaware - 9.5%
- Alaska - 9.1%
- Hawaii - 8.7%
- Utah - 8.6%