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The province of British Columbia has the lowest rate of prevalence for smoking all over the country (14.7%) with all prairie provinces having the most eminent prevalence at 20.8%. Remaining provinces were more or less above the national average, hovering around 19-20%.

Here is how the Canadian smoking stats break down by age groups. This data is from the 2008 CTUMS database. Complete data sets for 2009 are not yet available.

• 15-19 yrs old. - 15% of this population classify themselves as smokers. While unchanged from the former year, this figure is the lowest since Canada started out gathering and monitoring smoking statistics. Some provinces such as Newfoundland and Labrador have shown a decrease of 3% in this age group from the former year.
• 20-24 yrs old. - 27% of this population are smoking. Among this age group males proceed to smoke at a higher rate and smoke more cigarettes per capita than the female smokers in this age group.
• 25 - 45 yr old age group has the most eminent number of people who are giving up smoking. Between 25 and 45 yrs of age the number of humans who classify themselves as former smokers increased by just over 16%.

Canada has been engaged in smoking reduction attempts for over ten years. There has been a consistent venture to get the message out in regards to the health risks of smoking. Laws have been passed in numerous provinces to prevent smoking in public buildings and municipalities have enforced smoking bans that prevent smoking in any building, even bars and restaurants. Recently the smoking bans in Vancouver, BC and surrounding areas have been extended to included a restriction on smoking cigarettes within 7 meters of a building entrance.

Some communities are giving careful consideration to smoking laws to give rise to smoke free outdoor patios, parks, and beaches. These types of measure reflect a change in the attitude of the public that welcomes regulation to protect the health of all citizens.

Since the smoking stats show a clear drop in the prevalence of smoking in Canada it is clear there are a substantial number of humans who are giving up smoking cigarettes. But more importantly, less and less Canadians are being influenced to take up the habit in the introductory place.

So of those humans who are still in the smoking minority who are they? An examination of the social epidemiology reveals a good deal of interesting statistics.

The most eminent prevalence of smokers is amidst the unemployed, poorly educated, and low income populations. The very persons who have the least amount of disposable income buy the majority of cigarettes. For this population at least, it would appear that the economic affect of cigarette smoking is not necessary sufficient to motivate a alter in smoking behaviour.

Review
"Gonick is one of a kind." -- --Discover

"Gonick is one of a kind." -- Discover

"Gonick is so systematically witty and clever that the reader is hardly conscious of being given a indepth grounding." -- --Omni

"Gonick is so systematically witty and clever that the reader is scarcely conscious of being given a indepth grounding." -- Omni

Review
"Gonick is so systematically witty and clever that the reader is hardly conscious of being given a indepth grounding.""--Omni""Gonick is one of a kind.""--Discover"

From the Back Cover
If you have ever looked for P-values by buying goods at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trials on People's Court, or think that the popular deviation is a criminal offense in six states, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Statistics to put you on the road to statistical literacy.

The Cartoon Guide to Statistics covers all the central ideas of progressed statistics: the summary and display of all data, chance in gambling and medicine, random variables, Bernoulli Trials, the Central Limit Theorem, hypothesis testing, selfconfidence interval estimation, and much more--all explained in simple, clear, and funny illustrations. Never again will you order the Poisson Distribution in a French restaurant!

If you have ever looked for P-values by buying goods at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trails on "People's Court," or think that the usual deviation is a criminal offense in six states, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Statistics to put you on the road to statistical literacy.

The Cartoon Guide to Statistics covers all the central ideas of innovative statistics: the summary and display of data, prospect in gambling and medicine, random variables, Bernoulli Trails, the Central Limit Theorem, hypothesis testing, selfassurance interval estimation, and much more—all explained in simple, clear, and yes, amusive illustrations. Never again will you order the Poisson Distribution in a French restaurant!

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5128 in Books
• Published on: 1993
• Released on: 1993-07-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .63" h x 7.36" w x 9.24" l, .71 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 230 pages

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309 of 313 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent and Practical... but don't be fooled!
By A
This book is exceptional in its ability to communicate difficult concepts in a light and entertaining manner. It seems to me that those who gave this book low ratings seem to think that the book should have magically imparted its knowledge upon them with no effort on their part.

Indeed, although Gonick presents the details via cartoons, that does not change the fact that "Sigma" is still "Sigma", and if you don't understand exactly what "Sigma" represents before moving on to the next concept, then you will not understand the subsequent lessons.

ie. Just because cartoons tell the tale, it doesn't mean that you will breeze through this book as you might a comic book. The individual concepts must be read and reread and perhaps even contemplated in order to truly understand each one before moving on to the next concept. If you do not do this, then, of course, nothing will make sense.

This is a book of statistics, not miracles...thus work will still be necessary in order to absorb the basic concepts within it.

Nevertheless, this book is far clearer and much more fun to read than any other stat book I've opened before. Very highly recommended.

111 of 112 people found the following review helpful.
GREAT BOOK (covers probability theory painlessly & well)
By A
Probability theory (uncertainty, error estimates, confidence intervals, "p-values" and the like) take time to understand, and rigorous approaches fail to get the concepts across to the non-mathemetician.

Gonick & Woolcott's Cartoon Guide to Statistics gets the ideas across with a minimum of math, and a maximum of "common sense" & (dare I say it?) intuition. The reader get's a FEEL for Probability and Statistics without violating the rigorous underpinnings of statistical theory.

I've taught Statistics to undergrad and grad students, and have had to teach into stats to Grad Students in 7 week Summer short courses, and I required everybody to buy exactly the same statistics calculator (one of the TI models with a couple chapters devoted to the mechanics of "doing statistics"), Cliff Notes _Statistics_, Darryl Huff's _How_to_Lie_With_Statistics_ (a classic cartoon guide I read decades ago) and Gonick's _Cartoon_Guide_to_Statistics_.

The 4 paperbacks (including the book that comes with the TI calculator) complement each other very well.

If you want to learn Statistics, without the standard Sadistics, I recommend Cliff, Huff, T.I. & Gonick. Enjoy!

44 of 44 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent suppliment to dry statistics books
By Eric C
This book was included in the materials for a business statistics class at Anderson. Bogged down by the reading from the course book and study guide, I didn't even open the cartoon guide for weeks, thinking it was probably too dumbed down to be helpful. Was I ever wrong. Concepts that were very difficult to understand in the course book were elucidated by the excellent examples and explanations in this guide. Made reviewing general concepts for the final exam much easier as well.

This book won't help you much in the practical application of statistics (for that you need problem sets), but will certainly aid in understanding the general ideas behind the math.

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