US States With the Highest Current Smoking

49 US states ranked by current smoking, from highest to lowest. First are West Virginia (24.1), Tennessee (19.2) and Mississippi (18.6). The middle one of the 49 has 13.6.

What this measures

Adults who have smoked at least a hundred cigarettes in their life and now smoke every day or some days. Source: .

For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.

Every state

Rank	State	% of adults
1	West Virginia	24.1
2	Tennessee	19.2
3	Mississippi	18.6
4	Louisiana	18.2
5	Arkansas	17.5
6	Missouri	17.3
7	Oklahoma	17.2
8	Ohio	17.1
9	South Dakota	16.9
10	Alaska	16.5
11	Maine	16.5
12	Indiana	16.4
13	Alabama	16
14	Kansas	15.7
15	Iowa	15.7
16	Nevada	15.6
17	Wyoming	15.5
18	Michigan	15.2
19	North Dakota	14.8
20	North Carolina	14.6
21	Montana	14.1
22	South Carolina	13.9
23	Minnesota	13.9
24	Georgia	13.6
25	Wisconsin	13.6
26	Nebraska	13.4
27	New Mexico	13.4
28	Vermont	13.3
29	Delaware	12.8
30	Texas	12.1
31	Virginia	12
32	New Hampshire	11.7
33	Oregon	11.6
34	Illinois	11.5
35	Idaho	11.5
36	Florida	11.5
37	Massachusetts	11.1
38	District of Columbia	11.1
39	Arizona	11
40	Rhode Island	11
41	Colorado	10.7
42	New York	10.4
43	Maryland	10.1
44	Hawaii	9.96
45	New Jersey	9.86
46	Washington	9.84
47	Connecticut	9.26
48	California	9.24
49	Utah	6.72

More on current smoking

A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.