The bar chart depicts proportion of men and women smokers found in UK population from 1950 to 1990.
Overall, it can be seen that males in the UK significantly outperformed females in terms of consuming cigarettes or cigar as their consumption pattern remained consistent till 1980. Afterwards, a sharp decline was noticed, while number of female smokers gradually increased in the given period.
It is clear that more than 70% of male population was smokers in 1950, this trend remained consistent for almost 30 years till 1980. However, after 1980, a unique trend emerged as percentage of men smoking cigarettes drastically declined to all time low of just above 40%.
On the other hand, in 1980 only 20% of female population were found smoking, this proportion consistently increased to its peak at 60% in 1980. Furthermore, this upward trend was short-lived as its proportion decreased to just above 30% by the end of 1990.