An estimated one in five working U.S. adults use some type of tobacco product according to new research from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Of the estimated 32.7 million working adults who used tobacco, an estimated 6.9 million use two or more tobacco products “every day” or “somedays.”
While cigarettes remain the most commonly used tobacco product, the use of multiple tobacco products has become common among current users of non-cigarette products. In order to document tobacco use among working adults, NIOSH researchers examined three years of data (2014-2016) from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).