That’s the USA. There is a whole world outside that particular country. In Thailand, many women don’t smoke. If they do, it’s often because there are in the company of farang much of their time. But that demographic doesn’t play out in Western Europe much. And high class people DO smoke, as your figures show. It’s just not so much. The statement made and to which I responded was: “I say smokers are low-class people.” I stand by my statement that being a smoker does not automatically make you low class, simply because there are high class people that do, in fact smoke. In the USA that may be in lower numbers as one goes up the socio economic scale, but high class people do smoke. I was wrong to say that there is no correlation in respect of smoking, at least in respect of the USA
