{"id":153,"date":"2010-12-16T12:34:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T19:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theloungeisback.wordpress.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2014-01-25T19:50:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T19:50:39","slug":"more-maps-and-smoking-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"More maps … and smoking rates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some maps I forgot.<\/p>\n

The top map is smoking bans.<\/p>\n

The second map is cigarette taxes.<\/p>\n

The bottom map is smoking rates.<\/p>\n

See a correlation? Why, where there are smoking bans, smoking rates go down. What an amazing coincidence. Which is why I’m all for smoking bans. Whatever fascist approach has to be taken to persuade smokers its time to quit.<\/p>\n

I also recently noticed that Virginia isn’t getting a fair shake in the smoking ban map. Virginia actually has a valid smoking ban, stronger than Pennsylvania’s, but it has some loopholes, so I guess they don’t get any credit in this map. Virginia should be white in opinion, or at purple.<\/p>\n

The CDC recently released<\/a> its statewide smoking rate survey. Utah, where you burn in Hell for lighting up a cigarettes, is the lowest again at under 10 percent, while California is second at 12.9 percent, a big drop for California. Montana has also improved, dropping down to 16.8 percent, which is in the upper half. Montana is one of the few states in the country, however, in which the smoking rate for women (17.3 percent) is higher than the smoking rate for men, 16.4 percent.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin is one of the latest states in the country to impose a smoking ban. Wisconsin also has an extremely high cigarette tax — over $2 a pack — and its smoking rate has dropped from over 20 percent down to 18.8 percent.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the top seven states, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana, Missouri, Alabama and Mississippi, all have no smoking bans and low cigarette taxes. Oklahoma, Kentucky and West Virginia are the only states over 25 percent. When I first started studying this stuff, several states were over 30 percent. Kentucky has consistently been the highest smoking rate in the country.<\/p>\n

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Here are some maps I forgot. The top map is smoking bans. The second map is cigarette taxes. The bottom map is smoking rates. See a correlation? Why, where there are smoking bans, smoking rates go down. What an amazing coincidence. Which is why I’m all for smoking bans. Whatever fascist approach has to be … Continue reading More maps … and smoking rates<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,178],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cdc","tag-smoking-rates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/800px-us_states_smoking_bans-svg4.png?fit=800%2C495&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-2t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":557,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=557","url_meta":{"origin":153,"position":0},"title":"CDC predicts every state will have a smoking bans by 2020","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"April 21, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"First of all, the headline is a little misleading. 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