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Nope - Canada has a higher smoking rate than the US: https://uwaterloo.ca/tobacco-use-canada/adult-tobacco-use/smoking-canada/historical-trends-smoking-prevale

• refurb 7y ago
  That doesn’t contradict my point that the Canadian govt did more than the US govt to stop smoking.
  • notatoad 7y ago
    There's a big difference between taxing it and marketing campaigns to warn of the dangers, and "policing" it like the parent said. The government is not forbidding anybody from smoking.
• mthoms 7y ago
  Not really conclusive for several reasons. The Canada numbers include teenagers (persons aged 12+) while the US ones do not (persons aged 18+). Also, the Canada numbers went from 13% (lower than the reported US rate) in 2015 to 15.1% (higher than the US rate) in 2017. That 13 to 15.1% increase over two years seems to be a statistical anomaly as it goes sharply against the overall trend (according to your source): "Despite the overall prevalence increase in the most recent survey year, from 1999 to 2017, the overall trend was an average annual decrease in prevalence of 3.2% of the previous year’s value" TLDR; the average over the last several years is more or less the same.