<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by MisterNice:
American Indians and Alaska natives are more likely to smoke than any other group in the United States, with 40 percent of adults defined as smokers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week. People of Chinese descent were the least likely to smoke, with just 12 percent reporting that they had smoked a cigarette in the past month, said the agency survey, which was released on Thursday.
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MisterNice</font>
...regarding the comment about people of Chinese descent:
I think that may also have to do with the social economic status of much of the Chinese ethnic population rather than just the ethnicity itself.
When I am overseas in China, smoking is quite rampant.
FWIW
[This message has been edited by chichow (edited Feb 04, 2004).]