The chart visualises the rate at which 1000 individuals smoke in Southland from 1960 to 2000, the blue indicates or signifies male while the pink represents female on the chat, generally the line graph appears inverse.
On the one hand, 1960 was the peak smoking period for male with about 600 smokers and ever since then it has been on the retard, it reduced slightly in 1965 which has a figure below 600, but at 1970 it was about 550 male smoker, it moderately reduced to 500 in 1975 and was shown to gradually kept going down because in 1980, it came down to 450 while 400 in 1985, it apparently shows 380 male smoker in 1990 while about 280 smoked in 1995 and 250 male smokers in 2000.
On the other hand, the base or minimal smoking period for female was in 1960 with less than 100 smokers and ever since then it has been increasing, the peak smoking time was in 1975 and 1980 which was about 320 female smokers, there it was static and then started dropping gradually till it reached below 200 in 2000.
In conclusion, the year with the highest number of male smokers is 1960 and the minimal smoking period is 2000, while the peak period for female smokers is between 1975 to 1980, while the lowest year for female smokers is 1960.