Comments on: Cigarette Sin Tax: What We Can Learn from Motivation https://6sigma.com/cigarette-sin-tax-and-lean-six-sigma-deployments/ Six Sigma Certification and Training Fri, 28 Feb 2025 08:03:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: Nosybear https://6sigma.com/cigarette-sin-tax-and-lean-six-sigma-deployments/#comment-25404 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:33:00 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=4936#comment-25404 In reply to shmula.

Cheers and keep up the good fight!

]]> By: shmula https://6sigma.com/cigarette-sin-tax-and-lean-six-sigma-deployments/#comment-25403 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:31:00 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=4936#comment-25403 In reply to Nosybear.

You’re right – thanks for the clarification.

]]> By: Nosybear https://6sigma.com/cigarette-sin-tax-and-lean-six-sigma-deployments/#comment-25402 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:40:00 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=4936#comment-25402 Okay, on a site dedicated to facts and data, I see three mortal sins. The top two graphs show collections and consumption on an absolute basis over a long time window; however, there is no correction or even annotation that the population has increased by a factor of at least 4 during that period. The final graph has a similar bias: The population of China is three times that of the US while the US has a greater population than Japan and Russia (not sure about Indonesia without looking it up). Considering the domain name of the sources, usatoday.com and nocigtax.com, I can see where the bias comes from: the USA Today article was written by journalists with little or no contamination by analytical thinking and the nocigtax.com graphs were intentionally biased to support the ideas of the site. Goes to prove, never believe information pushed to you by someone with a vested interest in your believing it.

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