Healthy People 2010 Goal Used in Modeling

27-1a. Reduce the proportion of adults who smoke cigarettes.

• Target: 12 percent.
• Baseline: 24 percent of adults aged 18 years and older smoked cigarettes in 1998 (age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population).
• Target setting method: Better than the best.
• Data source: National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), CDC, NCHS.
• Reference: Healthy People 2010 Operational Definition