by Jim Rose in health economics Tags: economics of addiction, economics of smoking

Little wonder that Japanese and Korean women live much longer than men given that they spoke so little. Oddly enough, women smoke more or almost as much as men in countries where fewer smoke. The large cross-national differences in smoking rates is rather surprising too. Is smoking more addictive in some countries than others?

Source: OECD iLibrary: OECD Factbook 2015-2016: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics.