Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

• 🚭 A record-low 11% of US adults say they’ve smoked cigarettes within the past week, down from 25% in 2000 and 38% in 1983, per Gallup. (Read more)
• 🪙🗳️ The crypto industry accounts for 48% of all money contributed by corporations to political action committees (PACs) so far in the 2024 election cycle. (Read more)
• 🦠 More than 5% of all US adults have long Covid, with the disease resulting in ~1 million Americans being pushed out of the labor force since 2020. (Read more)
• 🛂 In 1990, just 5% of Americans owned a passport; by last year, that figure had risen to 48% (160+ million Americans). (Read more)
• ⚰️🔥 The percentage of US funerals in which the remains of the deceased were cremated has risen from 32% in 2005 to 61% last year. (Read more)