Smoking Harder to Quit for the Poor

Tuesday, 25 March 2014 | by Pat's Picks

The New York Times reports on a new analysis of smoking data that finds it’s increasingly becoming a habit of the poor. Smoking has seen huge declines in more affluent counties across the country, but smoking rates have remained the same in poorer counties. That gap in smoking rates among the rich and poor is contributing to inequality in health outcomes.

SOURCE: New York Times