A little blurb of information:
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To assess recent national estimates of commercial tobacco use among U.S. persons aged ≥18 years, CDC, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the National Cancer Institute analyzed 2021 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data. In 2021, an estimated 46 million U.S. adults (18.7%) reported currently using any tobacco product, including cigarettes (11.5%), e-cigarettes (4.5%), cigars (3.5%), smokeless tobacco (2.1%), and pipes (including hookah)* (0.9%).† Among those who used tobacco products, 77.5% reported using combustible products (cigarettes, cigars, or pipes), and 18.1% reported using two or more tobacco products.
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There have to be a few other pipe smokers in this county of 16,000 because one package liquor store and one grocery store carry a tiny selection of real pipe tobacco.
But I don’t know any, besides me.
But we pipe smokers are few and far between.
And let’s divide up the pipe smokers for this discussion. A lot of cigarette and cigar smokers own a few pipes.
Let’s call a person a pipe smoker if they smoke a pipe at least a few times a week. Once in a while isn’t enough, to qualify as a regular pipe smoker.
And to drill down further, a devoted pipe smoker no longer gets tongue bite, their pipe doesn’t gurgle, and they have lots of tampers, and they fire up a pipe with morning coffee.
I’d say one person in a thousand today is a die hard, leather tongued, never miss a payment devoted pipe smoker.
Most of em’ are likely reading this.
Does anybody else have a better estimate?
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To assess recent national estimates of commercial tobacco use among U.S. persons aged ≥18 years, CDC, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the National Cancer Institute analyzed 2021 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data. In 2021, an estimated 46 million U.S. adults (18.7%) reported currently using any tobacco product, including cigarettes (11.5%), e-cigarettes (4.5%), cigars (3.5%), smokeless tobacco (2.1%), and pipes (including hookah)* (0.9%).† Among those who used tobacco products, 77.5% reported using combustible products (cigarettes, cigars, or pipes), and 18.1% reported using two or more tobacco products.
Xxxxx
There have to be a few other pipe smokers in this county of 16,000 because one package liquor store and one grocery store carry a tiny selection of real pipe tobacco.
But I don’t know any, besides me.
But we pipe smokers are few and far between.
And let’s divide up the pipe smokers for this discussion. A lot of cigarette and cigar smokers own a few pipes.
Let’s call a person a pipe smoker if they smoke a pipe at least a few times a week. Once in a while isn’t enough, to qualify as a regular pipe smoker.
And to drill down further, a devoted pipe smoker no longer gets tongue bite, their pipe doesn’t gurgle, and they have lots of tampers, and they fire up a pipe with morning coffee.
I’d say one person in a thousand today is a die hard, leather tongued, never miss a payment devoted pipe smoker.
Most of em’ are likely reading this.
Does anybody else have a better estimate?
