US States With the Lowest Current Smoking

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

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.