A strong majority of Americans (73%) say the minimum age to purchase tobacco products should be raised to 21 years old. These findings come as Ohio became the 18th state, along with the District of Columbia, to raise the minimum age to 21 and as federal legislation with the same […] Read more »
Marijuana Use Similar to New Lower Rate of Cigarette Smoking
Americans’ cigarette use continues to decline, hitting a new low in Gallup’s 75-year trend. Currently, 15% of U.S. adults say they have smoked cigarettes in the past week, in marked contrast to the 45% who reported doing so in the 1950s. At the same time, 12% of Americans now say […] Read more »
Large Cities Top Small Towns, Rural Areas in Well-Being
Residents of highly populated communities have better overall well-being than their counterparts in less populated areas, based on their overall scores on the Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index. CONT. Dan Witters & Frank Newport, Gallup Read more »
60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll: Bad Habits
Welcome to the 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll for October 2015. The subject of this month’s poll is Bad Habits. If the word habit can be defined as a recurring often unconscious pattern of behavior acquired through frequent repetition, then what constitutes a bad habit? CONT. CBS News Read more »
Sexting and Internet safety climb top 10 list of health concerns for children across the U.S.
With more kids online and using cell phones at increasingly younger ages, two issues have quickly climbed higher on the public’s list of major health concerns for children across the U.S: sexting and Internet safety. Compared with 2014, Internet safety rose from the eighth to the fourth biggest problem, ahead […] Read more »
Slim Majority Call Secondhand Smoke Very Harmful
Less than half of U.S. smokers with children younger than 18, 44%, believe exposure to secondhand smoke is “very harmful” to adults. That contrasts with two-thirds of parents who don’t smoke, and 61% of adult nonsmokers without children younger than 18. Meanwhile, relatively few smokers who don’t have minor-aged children, […] Read more »