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QuickStats: Percentage of Women Who Smoked* Cigarettes During Pregnancy, by Race and Hispanic Origin† — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2016 and 2022
Weekly / December 15, 2023 / 72(50);1355
* Smoking is self-reported by the mother.
† Race groups are single-race, non-Hispanic; persons of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race. “All races and origins” includes all race and Hispanic origin groups including those not shown separately.
The percentage of women who smoked cigarettes at any time during pregnancy declined from 7.2% to 3.7% from 2016 to 2022. Smoking during pregnancy declined in each race and Hispanic-origin group during this period. Percentages declined from 16.7% to 11.0% among non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native women, from 10.5% to 5.4% among non-Hispanic White women, from 6.0% to 3.1% among non-Hispanic Black or African American women, from 4.5% to 2.1% among non-Hispanic Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander women, from 1.8% to 1.0% among Hispanic or Latino women, and from 0.6% to 0.3% among non-Hispanic Asian women.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Natality Data File, 2022. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/births.htm
Reported by: Joyce A. Martin, MPH, jcm9@cdc.gov.
For more information on this topic, CDC recommends the following link: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/health_effects/pregnancy/
Suggested citation for this article: QuickStats: Percentage of Women Who Smoked Cigarettes During Pregnancy, by Race and Hispanic Origin — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2016 and 2022. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2023;72:1355. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7250a5.
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