A year and a half later, 22 percent now smoke.

In fact, 22 percent of high school seniors smoke every day.

But 18.2 percent of those who expected to get a college degree had smoked.

Basically 90 percent of my customers smoke while they drink.

Nearly 50 percent of them smoked in the late 1980's; now the percentage has dipped below the national average.

"Thirty or 35 percent of the American public still smokes," she said.

In 1955, for instance, 56.9 percent of adult males smoked.

In 2004, more than 26 percent of the Italian population smoked.

The study also found that 23.1 percent of Americans living outside institutionalized settings smoked.

When you think about it, 30 or 50 years ago, 60 percent of the population smoked.