Florida’s infant mortality rate has dropped to 6 per 1,000 live births, the Associated Press reports. In a separate story, the smoking rate for U.S. adults has dropped to 18 percent, after hovering around 20 percent for years, the AP reports.
Big Drops: Infant Mortality, Adult Smoking
![Leon County Judge John Cooper on June 30, 2022, in a screen grab from The Florida Channel.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3d98049/2147483647/strip/true/crop/275x183+0+0/resize/880x586!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fhealthnewsfl%2Ffiles%2F201306%2Fsmiling_baby.jpg)
The Florida Channel