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Date Posted: 05:58:23 08/07/21 Sat
Author: Jason
Subject: Female smoking by race/ethnicity

Here are the latest (2019) median female smoking rates by race according to the BRFSS.

Native American 30.7
Black 15.3
White 15.0 (record low)
Hispanic 7.7 (record low)
Asian 5.1 (record high)

Asian women at a record high probably caught your attention. We don't see that very often. I only have BRFSS ethnic data (for all races) going back to 2015. It was likely higher before then, so record high might be misleading. Still it's at a 5 year high and that's pretty exciting, although 5% is not really an exciting number.

The Asian numbers are by far the most interesting to me though because of a major shrinkage of the gender gap...from 6 or 7 points in previous years to 3 points. This closing of the gender gap was found in most every state..it is a real thing. It is mostly caused by a very steep decline in Asian American men (down to 8% which is a 4 point drop from previous years). This now puts Asian-Americans closer to whites (1 point male gap) and Native Americans (no gender gap) than blacks (7 point gap) or Hispanics (9 point gap). Until this year Asians were more similar to blacks and Hispanics. I also find it very interesting that Asian-Americans have such a low smoking gender gap when Asians in Asia have a massive male gender gap, sometimes as high as 40,50 or 60 points. Why such radically different smoking behavior?

Whites and Hispanics are at record lows but it's a slow drip down. Black women are up a full point and a half from an unusually low (and flukish?) 2018.

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