[TheRealSteel]

Nope - Canada has a higher smoking rate than the US:

https://uwaterloo.ca/tobacco-use-canada/adult-tobacco-use/sm...

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/adul...

[refurb]

That doesn’t contradict my point that the Canadian govt did more than the US govt to stop smoking.

[notatoad]

There's a big difference between taxing it and marketing campaigns to warn of the dangers, and "policing" it like the parent said.

The government is not forbidding anybody from smoking.

[mthoms]

Not really conclusive for several reasons.

The Canada numbers include teenagers (persons aged 12+) while the US ones do not (persons aged 18+).

Also, the Canada numbers went from 13% (lower than the reported US rate) in 2015 to 15.1% (higher than the US rate) in 2017. That 13 to 15.1% increase over two years seems to be a statistical anomaly as it goes sharply against the overall trend (according to your source):

"Despite the overall prevalence increase in the most recent survey year, from 1999 to 2017, the overall trend was an average annual decrease in prevalence of 3.2% of the previous year’s value"

TLDR; the average over the last several years is more or less the same.