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Never smoked: U.S. states ranked (2024)

Measure: Never smoked. All 49 states and District of Columbia with data in Smoking status of adults by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2024.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-04

Download full table CSV Source: CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (opens in a new tab)

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 74.6 %
RI 64.1 %
DE 61.5 %
CT 66.6 %
NJ 68.8 %
MD 70.5 %
MA 67.1 %
VT 60.4 %
NH 61.5 %

Lowest: 51.1 to 59.2 %
Group 2: 59.2 to 61.3 %
Group 3: 61.3 to 63.3 %
Group 4: 63.3 to 66.6 %
Highest: 66.6 to 78.1 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.


1	Utah	78.1
2	District of Columbia	74.6
3	California	70.8
4	Maryland	70.5
5	New Jersey	68.8
6	New York	67.8
7	Texas	67.4
8	Massachusetts	67.1
9	Washington	66.8
10	Connecticut	66.6
11	Georgia	65.6
12	Illinois	65.5
13	Idaho	65.3
14	Hawaii	65.2
14	Virginia	65.2
16	Arizona	64.9
17	Colorado	64.3
18	Rhode Island	64.1
19	Nebraska	63.4
20	Minnesota	63.3
21	Florida	62.9
22	North Carolina	62.8
23	North Dakota	62.6
24	Mississippi	62.3
24	New Mexico	62.3
26	Iowa	61.8
27	Delaware	61.5
27	New Hampshire	61.5
29	Pennsylvania	61.4
30	South Carolina	61.3
31	Alabama	61.2
32	Nevada	61
33	Kansas	60.9
34	Oregon	60.8
35	Vermont	60.4
35	Wisconsin	60.4
37	Indiana	60
38	Montana	59.4
39	Louisiana	59.2
39	Wyoming	59.2
41	Ohio	59
42	Oklahoma	58.7
43	South Dakota	58.6
44	Alaska	58.3
45	Missouri	58.1
46	Michigan	58
47	Arkansas	57.9
48	Kentucky	56.5
49	Maine	54
50	West Virginia	51.1

Source: CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, BRFSS Prevalence Data (2011 to present), data.cdc.gov dataset dttw-5yxu. Reference period: 2024.

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U.S. states ranked by never smoked (2024). Data: CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), BRFSS Prevalence Data (2011 to present), data.cdc.gov dataset dttw-5yxu; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-04. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-never-smoked/

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