America's blue-collar smoking trend: By the numbers

Construction workers take a cigarette break: Construction, food service, and mining are the three industries with the highest smoking rates in America, according to a CDC study.

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last updated 8 January 2015

Miners and food service workers have something in common: They both like to smoke. Teachers and business professionals, however, are among America's least likely smokers. Welcome to the new "collar-color divide," says John Gever at ABC, in which white-collar workers are much less likely to smoke than their blue-collar counterparts. Those are among the findings in a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which from 2004 to 2010 interviewed more than 113,000 Americans about smoking. Here, a look at more of the conclusions, by the numbers:

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