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Mayor's Report Shows New York by the Numbers  

In the midst of it all, what might be Mr. Bloomberg's proudest accomplishment was the decline in the number of smokers since he signed a bill raising cigarette taxes by $1.50 in 2002 and, a year later, banned smoking in the workplace, including restaurants and bars.

In the 2007 calendar year, 16.9 percent of the city's adult population smoked, down from 21.5 percent in 2002. (Smoking, unlike most of the measures tracked in the report, is tracked by calendar year rather than fiscal year.)

The sharpest reduction happened on Staten Island, where the mayor was heckled once during a parade after the price of a pack of cigarettes reached the $7 mark. There, smokers made up 20.4 percent of the adult population in 2007, down from 27.2 percent in 2006.

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