More Americans smoke marijuana than tobacco, according to the results of a recent Gallup poll. The poll also found that the use of cannabis in the United States is at an all-time high, jumping by a third in just one year.
The Gallup poll, which was released on August 16, shows that 16% of those surveyed said that they smoke marijuana, up from 12% in a similar poll only one year ago, although Gallup said the change was not statistically significant. By contrast, only 11% said that they had smoked a tobacco cigarette in the previous week in a separate poll published in July. That figure was down from a year ago when 16% said that they had smoked a cigarette in the past week and a significant decrease from the peak in the 1950s, when 45% of adults polled said that they were smokers.
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