Cigarettes Are More Popular With Americans Than Vaping Newsweek In 1980, roughly a third of American adults still smoked. Now here's a figure from 2024: 9.9 percent. That's the share of American adults who smoke cigarettes, according to data from the Chart: The U.S. States That Smoke The Most Statista Vaping on the rise in U.S., especially among young people Pew Research Center Vaping Percentages UW CTRI UWMadison Report: Latino Young Adults Distrust the Tobacco, Vaping Industry Salud America