What is smoked by Americans?

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states, one federal district, and fourteen territories. It is a very immense territory where lived more then 300 million people. From this number nearly 21 percents of U.S. adults (45.1 million people) are current cigarette smokers.

Smoking accompanies us everywhere we go and whatever we do. We used to practice it in special moments or when we just stay alone we used to smoke our favorite cigarette. For a long time, lightning up turns to be grant for a well done work. This way of living is preferred by millions, not only in USA but in entire world.

Who smoke more? As last statistics showed prevalence of cigarette smoking is highest among American Indians/Alaska Natives that constitute 32.0 percent. They are followed by whites constituting 21.9 percent, African Americans (21.5 percent), Hispanics (16.2 percent), and Asians 13.3 percent).

Curious question is what are smoked by Americans? As statistics demonstrated, chose of cigarette brand depend not only on financial part, but also on ethnicity. It is incredible, but this affirmation is based on the investigations that American specialists have done in USA areas. Summing up all the results, we get the following picture of domestic tobacco market and cigarette smokers: 99% of all cigarettes sold in the United States are filtered. This goes to conclusion that today around all Americans show preferences to filtered cigarette brands, in comparison with remained 1 % of unfiltered tobacco products.

Cigarette brands that yield approximately 1–6 mg of tar by machine testing conducted by the Federal Trade Commission are generally called “ultra-light.” Those with approximately 6–15 mg of tar are called “light,” and brands yielding more than 15 mg of tar are called “regular” or “full flavor.” Of all cigarettes sold in the United States, 84% are either light or ultra-light (i.e., low tar) brands.

From all cigarette brands that are presented on tobacco market, Americans choose legendary Marlboro which controls around 40% of market share. Being the most popular brand in the United States its sales is greater than the five leading competitors combined. Marlboro is followed by Newport (8.9%), Camel (6.6%), Doral (4.4%), Basic (3.8%), Winston (3.5%), and Kool (3.2%).

A national survey done in 2005 exposed that Marlboro is preferred by 51% of smokers aged 18–25 years, and 40% of smokers aged 26 years or older.