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Re:Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with... by pengaru on Monday April 20, 2020 @06:49PM (#22929699)
Just speculating here but I hung out with some NYC folks last month in SoCal and they practically all smoked. It was very strange, I rarely encounter smokers living in California.
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Re:Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with... by catlas3r on Monday April 20, 2020 @08:05PM (#22930376)
Cigarette smoking rate is widely studied; no reason to use anecdotal data here.

The tobacco smoking rate in New York is 14.1%; it's 11.3% in California. Some difference, yes, but far less difference than you see between either and some rural southern states where the numbers can be roughly double that.

https://www.cdc.gov/statesystem/cigaretteuseadult.html

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