Tobacco Use

Access the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website at https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/brfssprevalence/index.html

Under Prevalence and Trends Data, select the following:

State: California
Year: 2016
Category: Tobacco Use

Scroll down and click the link for Tobacco Use

Under the drop-down, select Four Level Smoking Status

According to the CDC data, 7.9% of Californian adults smoked everyday. How does this compare to previous years?

Click the “View Trend Data” tab.

Write 500 words explaining this trend. Explore this data set by selecting a different category, different state or different years. This should be very useful in writing prevalence statements regarding behaviors.

Remember to cite/reference all outside works in proper APA style (6th edition).