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Health > Daily smokers (vs) Environment > Wildness

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Strength of correlation (R squared): 0.400 (this correlation is weak)

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Variable: Health > Daily smokers Environment > Wildness
Plot Display: Logarithmic (base 10) Logarithmic (base 10)
Definition: Data on tobacco consumption - this is a percentage of the total population who smoke at least one cigarette a day.(Data for Portugal and Austria is from 2002. All other data is from 2003). Percent of land area having very low anthropogenic impact
Units: Percent of Land Area
Units: Global grids for population (GPW), land use (USGS AVHRR based classification from EROS data center), VMAP roads, VMAP railways, VMAP coastlines, VMAP major rivers and the stable lights data were all scored for "wildness". The scores were aggregated and normalized.
Source: OECD Health Data 2005 Wild Areas Project (WAP), joint Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and CIESIN project to map the lastwild places on the earth's surface. via ciesin.org
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