One of my favorite graphs is this one on smoking rates in the US. https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2021/07/Smoking-and-lung-cancer-mortality-US-only.png http

One of my favorite graphs is this one on smoking rates in the US. https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2021/07/Smoking-and-lung-cancer-mortality-US-only.png https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2021/07/Smoking-and-lung-... It peeks in 1960. After that there's a plateau and then a long decline. The thing that gets me is- why 1960? I mean there were lots of things done after that but if you look at it I can't help but imagine that the causality is backwards. That all the things done to make smoking cigarettes harder were just put there because people didn't want to smoke whatever the reason was.