Arkansas Has Low Percentage of Smoke-Free Workplaces
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Updated: April 17, 2007
The study puts Nevada last with 54.8-percent of adults in a smoke-free work place. Arkansas was next-to-last at 61.3-percent.
The states with the highest percentage of smoke-free workplace policies were West Virginia at 85.8-percent and Iowa at 77.7-percent.
The same study also shows that adult smoking rates vary considerably across the 50 states.
Kentucky (28.7 percent), Indiana (27.3 percent), and Tennessee (26.8 percent) had the highest prevalence of current smokers while smoking prevalence was lowest in Utah (11.5 percent), California (15.2 percent), and Connecticut (16.5 percent).
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