Smoking around the world
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Smoking around the world
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#2What is going on in Chile?
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#3Obligatory bikeshedding:
It's really frustrating that, in the first two visualizations, whose only difference is that one shows data for women, and the other shows data for men, they chose to use two different color scales. It makes it difficult to compare between the two.
For example, if you weren't paying close attention to the scales, you might easily get the impression that a greater proportion of women than men smoke in France and Chile.
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#4What is going on in Chile?
It's really interesting, they have a much higher percentage of people who smoke, but the number of cigarettes they smoke a day is far less than even in the united states.
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#5Isn't it incredible how much the smoking culture of America has shifted over time? If only the forces who put the anti-smoking effort into motion could come together and work towards making renewable energy, alternative commuting methods, or universal healthcare acceptable ideas in this country.
I used to smoke a pack a day and I'm glad I don't anymore.
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#6Obligatory bikeshedding: It's really frustrating that, in the first two visualizations, whose only difference is that one shows data for women, and the other shows data for men, they chose to use two different color scales. It makes it difficult to compare between the two. For example, if you weren't paying close attention to the scales, you might easily get the impression that a greater proportion of women than men…
There are all kinds of quirks and questionable decisions in this presentation. It's good data but I found myself doing a double take every other chart.
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#7What's odd about this is that women in "richer" countries smoke more on average than women in developing nations, but conversely, when it comes to men, men in developing nations smoke more on average than men in developed countries...
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#8Obligatory bikeshedding: It's really frustrating that, in the first two visualizations, whose only difference is that one shows data for women, and the other shows data for men, they chose to use two different color scales. It makes it difficult to compare between the two. For example, if you weren't paying close attention to the scales, you might easily get the impression that a greater proportion of women than men…
Yeah, at some point I learned to scale all related charts the same. Otherwise, confusion is too likely.
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#9Isn't it incredible how much the smoking culture of America has shifted over time? If only the forces who put the anti-smoking effort into motion could come together and work towards making renewable energy, alternative commuting methods, or universal healthcare acceptable ideas in this country. I used to smoke a pack a day and I'm glad I don't anymore.
I wonder how anti-smoking campaign would have played out today when a good chunk of population can't be convinced that vaccines are a good thing.
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#10Would be interesting to see the same data for vaping.