Over forty years between 1960 and 2000 This Chart clearly shows that the rates of smoking of men and women in Someland tended to go together became much more closely aligned, and almost converged in 2000. The rate of smoking of men consecutively decreased from 600 per 1000 people in 1960 to nearly 300 per 1000 people in 2000. Compared to 1960, the smoking rate in 2000 significantly went down to two times was significantly reduced, by a factor of almost 2.

On the contrary, smoking amongst women in 1960 was at a minimal rate, under 100 per 1000 people and which was six times lower than the smoking rate among men at that time. The rate of smoking rate among women kept increasing from 1960 to 1975 and leveled out in 1980 with at about 300 per 1000 people before welcoming a welcome declining trend between 1981 and late 90's. There had been a big gap between men's and women's smoking rates at the beginning of this span but as time passed it got considerably closer and almost met up (converged) in 2000.

In conclusion, the graph shows that there had a separate trend between the rate of smoking of men and women in Someland at the beginning of 1960 to late 1970s then they moved down together and seemed to meet up in 2000.