Lighting up

Percent of adult smokers per community*

By Matt Carroll
Boston Globe / May 28, 2009
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CommunityPercent
Abington20.1
Acton8.3
Acushnet20.2
Adams22.5
Agawam19.7
Alford9.2
Amesbury19.7
Amherst13.9
Andover9.0
Aquinnah19.8
Arlington11.4
Ashburnham17.2
Ashby16.3
Ashfield13.1
Ashland14.3
Athol22.6
Attleboro19.7
Auburn18.0
Avon18.7
Ayer19.6
Barnstable16.4
Barre17.1
Becket17.7
Bedford8.3
Belchertown17.4
Bellingham18.2
Belmont8.6
Berkley19.1
Berlin15.2
Bernardston15.9
Beverly17.0
Billerica21.7
Blackstone22.9
Blandford18.2
Bolton8.6
Boston15.9
Bourne19.4
Boxborough9.3
Boxford7.6
Boylston13.9
Braintree16.2
Brewster14.4
Bridgewater18.2
Brimfield17.8
Brockton22.5
Brookfield20.0
Brookline8.4
Buckland17.5
Burlington12.1
Cambridge14.3
Canton12.8
Carlisle4.3
Carver18.3
Charlemont18.6
Charlton19.9
Chatham12.1
Chelmsford13.0
Chelsea21.3
Cheshire17.8
Chester22.2
Chesterfield18.9
Chicopee23.9
Chilmark11.2
Clarksburg20.8
Clinton20.4
Cohasset9.0
Colrain19.1
Concord5.6
Conway12.5
Cummington15.5
Dalton16.7
Danvers15.0
Dartmouth17.2
Dedham15.8
Deerfield15.4
Dennis15.3
Dighton17.6
Douglas19.0
Dover5.1
Dracut20.8
Dudley20.3
Dunstable11.3
Duxbury9.5
East Bridgewater19.9
East Brookfield21.2
Eastham16.4
Easthampton20.8
East Longmeadow14.4
Easton14.7
Edgartown15.3
Egremont9.7
Erving22.1
Essex16.2
Everett23.1
Fairhaven22.5
Fall River31.7
Falmouth15.5
Fitchburg24.5
Florida19.2
Foxborough15.4
Framingham15.4
Franklin15.0
Freetown18.5
Gardner24.7
Georgetown14.2
Gill15.8
Gloucester20.0
Goshen18.1
Gosnold28.2
Grafton15.2
Granby17.0
Granville16.8
Great Barrington17.7
Greenfield23.4
Groton11.7
Groveland13.7
Hadley14.0
Halifax18.6
Hamilton12.2
Hampden14.4
Hancock16.3
Hanover15.1
Hanson19.0
Hardwick20.5
Harvard7.1
Harwich16.0
Hatfield15.9
Haverhill20.8
Hawley20.2
Heath17.9
Hingham9.1
Hinsdale20.3
Holbrook20.4
Holden12.2
Holland19.8
Holliston12.9
Holyoke21.9
Hopedale17.2
Hopkinton9.7
Hubbardston14.7
Hudson17.5
Hull20.3
Huntington18.8
Ipswich15.4
Kingston17.9
Lakeville16.0
Lancaster15.3
Lanesborough20.9
Lawrence19.1
Lee20.7
Leicester18.6
Lenox14.1
Leominster18.4
Leverett9.5
Lexington6.6
Leyden17.2
Lincoln6.5
Littleton12.4
Longmeadow8.0
Lowell26.7
Ludlow20.0
Lunenburg15.3
Lynn25.1
Lynnfield9.5
Malden18.9
Manchester17.0
Mansfield16.4
Marblehead9.3
Marion9.5
Marlborough17.4
Marshfield19.8
Mashpee15.2
Mattapoisett13.6
Maynard17.5
Medfield9.2
Medford16.1
Medway14.5
Melrose13.4
Mendon14.6
Merrimac17.2
Methuen18.2
Middleborough19.8
Middlefield19.4
Middleton14.7
Milford18.8
Millbury20.5
Millis14.2
Millville20.3
Milton8.7
Monroe45.7
Monson20.0
Montague22.5
Monterey12.0
Montgomery13.1
Mount Washington12.0
Nahant10.1
Nantucket17.9
Natick10.4
Needham8.0
New Ashford13.0
New Bedford27.2
New Braintree17.9
Newbury14.2
Newburyport15.9
New Marlborough14.5
New Salem15.8
Newton10.0
Norfolk12.6
North Adams27.8
Northampton16.0
North Andover12.8
North Attleboro18.5
Northborough12.7
Northbridge20.2
North Brookfield20.5
Northfield15.6
North Reading14.5
Norton17.5
Norwell9.2
Norwood14.2
Oak Bluffs19.5
Oakham14.9
Orange24.4
Orleans11.6
Otis16.0
Oxford20.7
Palmer23.7
Paxton11.4
Peabody17.4
Pelham9.1
Pembroke16.9
Pepperell16.6
Peru21.4
Petersham12.6
Phillipston20.4
Pittsfield24.1
Plainfield16.7
Plainville16.9
Plymouth20.6
Plympton14.4
Princeton9.5
Provincetown22.3
Quincy20.0
Randolph15.6
Raynham17.3
Reading12.4
Rehoboth14.0
Revere25.7
Richmond9.8
Rochester14.5
Rockland21.7
Rockport14.7
Rowe14.9
Rowley15.0
Royalston21.1
Russell19.1
Rutland19.5
Salem18.9
Salisbury24.6
Sandisfield14.7
Sandwich15.4
Saugus19.6
Savoy21.4
Scituate13.5
Seekonk16.6
Sharon7.2
Sheffield15.8
Shelburne14.2
Sherborn5.4
Shirley18.6
Shrewsbury12.9
Shutesbury10.4
Somerset18.3
Somerville16.7
Southampton14.0
Southborough8.1
Southbridge22.1
South Hadley17.8
Southwick21.5
Spencer23.1
Springfield25.1
Sterling14.5
Stockbridge11.6
Stoneham14.5
Stoughton16.2
Stow8.5
Sturbridge16.1
Sudbury6.8
Sunderland16.0
Sutton15.0
Swampscott10.0
Swansea19.0
Taunton24.2
Templeton21.7
Tewksbury18.3
Tisbury17.2
Tolland15.4
Topsfield8.4
Townsend18.4
Truro15.7
Tyngsborough16.5
Tyringham9.8
Upton13.5
Uxbridge18.1
Wakefield14.1
Wales21.8
Walpole13.2
Waltham15.5
Ware23.3
Wareham23.4
Warren25.1
Warwick17.3
Washington17.5
Watertown13.9
Wayland6.2
Webster25.3
Wellesley5.8
Wellfleet12.7
Wendell17.5
Wenham9.6
Westborough11.0
West Boylston16.6
West Bridgewater18.7
West Brookfield18.9
Westfield21.4
Westford10.1
Westhampton13.9
Westminster18.4
West Newbury8.6
Weston5.0
Westport19.0
West Springfield21.0
West Stockbridge12.3
West Tisbury12.5
Westwood8.0
Weymouth20.2
Whately12.6
Whitman22.0
Wilbraham12.2
Williamsburg13.6
Williamstown12.7
Wilmington15.9
Winchendon25.6
Winchester6.4
Windsor17.9
Winthrop19.2
Woburn16.0
Worcester23.4
Worthington14.4
Wrentham13.6
Yarmouth17.8

SOURCE: The Warren Group; * 18 and older; estimates based on Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System studies done between 2004 and 2006. 

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