Gallup Poll Finds That More Americans Smoke Marijuana Than Cigarettes
The polling company Gallup released a new opinion survey about American’s views towards marijuana and tobacco. For people who remember how ubiquitous cigarettes and smoking tobacco used to be in public areas of the U.S., and how stigmatized almost any form of drug use was, it would be shocking for them to learn that out of the Americans polled by Gallup, more of them reported being hobby pot smokers over tobacco. According to Gallup, 11% of American adults asked said they were cigarette smokers, while 16% self-reported that they smoked marijuana. Rates for alcohol use were much higher than eit...