Tobacco use remains high in many countries, despite measures by some governments to curb smoking.
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Nerfherder
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The graph clearly shows that it is on the decline... you have to remember that the amount of alive people in the world is rapidly increasing at the same time. So that means that there is a much lower % of smokers in the world.
Haldex
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Whats the grey bit in the pie chart?
TheHiveMind
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Everyone else?
ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
This is purely because smoking is still "cool" with the youngsters out there, and the governments making it cooler by TRYING to suppress it.
Completely irrelevant. More cigarettes are selling now than in the past.
Smokey haze.
Grant
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pass me a light please !
Chevron
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Natural selection is wonderful.
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No it is not irrelevant. There are less cigarettes per capita smoked in very step of that graph, so it is on the decline.
Moreover it is declining even more rapidly in the countries where anti smoking legislation is the most enforced, eg Australia...and not as the OP suggests "despite some governments attempts to curb"
Nerfherder
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The only important numbers are I was selling this much 50 years ago and I'm selling this much today. Today's number is bigger than 50 years ago. It makes no difference whether the market has grown and my sales haven't grown as much. The tobacco companies continue to laugh all the way to the bank. They're selling more cigarettes than ever and sales are steadily increasing. Who really cares if sheep infested countries have reducing numbers of smokers when they're not where the population growth is.