[c3534l]

Why on Earth did they shade the percent of men smoking darker than the women? That means in countries where about the same proportion of women as men smoke, which is most countries, the female map is colored as having a higher percentage than men because they made the key identical minus 10%. This makes me irrationally angry.

[wyldfire]

Yeah, they normalized the color range to the data within each set instead of among both sets. I agree, it's confusing.

[nubbins]

I was trying to figure out why countries had more women smoking than men which I’ve never observed anywhere, with regards to smoking or really any dangerous habit.

[pmalynin]

Actually, as some one who grew up in Ukraine I did see somewhere that there, teenagers had more girls smoking that boys.

[seandougall]

Same here — I didn’t even notice what was going on until I saw the men vs women plot with almost everything above the y = x line.

Also the “number of daily smokers” plot makes no sense in absolute terms, and really seems like it ought to be per capita.

Lots of questionable data viz here, plus some graphs clearly copied and pasted from elsewhere.