Look again at the table of smoking prevalence in exercise 19.
a) Compare the smoking rate among 18–24-year-old women to that of men during the time covered by this table.
b) Relatively few women over the age of 65 smoke. What other variables might affect this percentage?

Data From Exercise 19

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provide data on smoking rates by year and for men and women separately. Here is a table with some of that information:

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Men Women 1974 1994 2004 2014 18-24 42.1% 29.8 25.6 18.5 1974 1994 2004 2014 34.0 28.5 22.9 16.5 38.6 30.2 22.6 18.6 25-34 50.5 31.4 26.1 23.7 35-44 51.0 33.2 26.5 22.0 45-54 46.8 30.8 26.7 19.9 39.3 27.1 22.7 18.0 34.9 24.9 21.4 19.9 18.4 55-64 37.7 24.7 22.7 18.8 30.6 20.8 15.3 ≥65 24.8 13.2 9.8 9.8 12.3 11.1 8.2 7.6