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Canada has had the
greatest decline over this time, and NZ the least.
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Inter-country comparison
of trends in smoking prevalence - the % of adults who smoke
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Method
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Selection of the lowest
smoking prevalence OECD countries/states
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Inter-country comparison by
average rates of annual decrease, to eliminate inter-country differences in
survey methods.
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3-year centred averages for
start and end points to reduce survey sampling error
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Maximum observation
period (1990-2 to 2002-4) to eliminate the effect of
one-off events
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