Stats suggest tobacco use increases lifespan

According to the World Health Organization, Canada ranks 16th in life expectancy among all countries. The countries in which you can expect to live longer are: Iceland, Sweden, Luxemburg, France, Norway, Israel, Italy, Australia, Cyprus, Spain, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, and Japan.

Here’s the WHO stat that caught my attention. With the exception of Australia, Iceland, and Singapore, all those countries have higher rates of cigarette smoking than Canada, sometimes wildly so. In Canada, 17.5% of the adult population smoked in 2018. (wonder if that went up during lockdown?) In France it’s double; 34.6%, and in Cyprus it’s even higher!

Proving yet again that stats will trump lies, even big lies, every time!