20% of Americans are smokers?

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Found this surprising with all of the lovely health benefits and 10 bucks a pack

ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. smoking rates continue to hold steady, at about one in five adults lighting up regularly, frustrated health officials reported Tuesday.

About 21 percent of U.S. adults were smokers in 2009, about the same percentage as the year before, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The smoking rate — which fell dramatically since the 1960s — has basically been flat since about 2004.

Teen smoking, at nearly 20 percent, has not been improving lately, either.

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Who are these health officials? Why do they have to be frustrated? Are they really that retarded? This is not their life...