Monday Trivia #132 [Michael Cain wins!]

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1. Interesting list. They’re all developed(ish) countries, but they’re not all OECD countries. Every OECD member is on your list, but also:
   Brazil,
   China,
   India,
   Indonesia,
   Russia, and
   South Africa.

   You’ve got some hard-luck stories at the beginning of the list, but also near the end. The middle seems to be classic Europe (which includes Japan and Israel).Report

2. Cigarette consumption per capita? Although I’m not sure why the list would be restricted to just these countries.Report

   1. And we have a winner!

      These are the countries that the OECD collected data for on this particular issue. I should have mentioned that it was not an exclusive list.Report

      1. Huh.

         I wouldn’t have guessed that India had lower per capita consumption than the US.Report

      2. The “per capita” part is doing a lot of the heavy lifting, I’m pretty sure.

         With 1.2ish billion people, if most of them aren’t actually in a position to afford cigarette consumption (and most aren’t) then you wittle down the portion of the country who can smoke to about maybe 2-300 million. The rest pad the statistics and dilute the prevalence due to simply being unable to afford the habit.

         Granted, when there’s 6 trillion cigarettes being smoked each year, even 100 billion cigs/year is a drop in the bucket.Report

   2. Well done! This actually crossed my mind, but I was thrown by Australia and Mexico near the bottom.

      Stereotypes are bad, m’kay?Report

      1. Some days the little voice in the back of my head that runs the filing department is amazing; some days he’s so far off it’s funny.Report

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