Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

Smoking rate among US adults

correlates with

Fireball meteor sightings reported

r = -0.98298% · 2005-2022
Smoking rate among US adultsFireball meteor sightings reported

These two datasets have a 98% correlation over 2005-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

Data Sources

Smoking rate among US adultscdc.gov
Fireball meteor sightings reportedamsmeteors.org
spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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