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US cigarette consumption

correlates with

Trump tweets per year

r = -0.91091% · 2009-2015
US cigarette consumptionTrump tweets per year

These two datasets have a 91% correlation over 2009-2015. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

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Data Sources

US cigarette consumptionpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Trump tweets per yearthetrumparchive.com
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