Eight out of 10 US homes ban smoking

Smoking is banned in more than eight out of 10 US homes – almost twice as many as two decades ago, according to an Associated Press story quoting the results of a new government study.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found smoking was forbidden even in nearly half of homes where an adult smoker lived, up from one in 10 households with smokers in the early 1990s.

CDC experts attributed the changes to shrinking smoking rates and altered attitudes.

“People no longer see it as socially acceptable to smoke around non-smokers,” said Brian King, a CDC expert on smoking issues.

The adult smoking rate fell from 25 percent in 1993 to 19 percent in 2011.

The AP story is at: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/study-10-us-homes-forbid-smoking-25248602

The study is at: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6335a1.htm?s_cid=mm6335a1_w