We're smoking far less that we used to just a decade ago.

• Why it matters: Avoiding or quitting cigarettes is one of the most important actions we can take for our health, the CDC notes. Smokers' life expectancy is at least 10 years shorter than that of nonsmokers.

🧠 Between the lines: The steepest decline in smoking has been among younger Americans, Gallup found.

• Among young adults ages 18 to 29, the rate of smoking dropped from 35% in the early 2000s to 12% today.
• They went from the likeliest age group to smoke to the second-least-likely, behind adults over 65.

🥊 Reality check: Although rates of smoking cigarettes are falling, the decline in Americans' tobacco use was recently reversed by the rise of vaping among young people.

• Still, even the combined share of young adults who smoke cigarettes and vape is lower than the percentage of youth who smoked two decades ago, according to Gallup.

Today's snap of urban beauty comes to us from the other side of the world, via reader Yousuf Z.

• "I took this photo of Istanbul at sunset from the Galata Tower, which provides a breathtaking view of the city across the Bosphorus," he writes.