Figure 1. Per Capita Cigarette Consumption and Age-Adjusted Rates of Death from Heart Disease from 1980 through 1997 in California and the Rest of the United States.

Rates of per capita cigarette consumption (Panel A) and age-adjusted rates of death from heart disease (Panel B) fell from 1980 to 1997 in both California and the rest of the United States, although at different rates. The rates of decline in both consumption and mortality in California increased when the California Tobacco Control Program was implemented in 1989.

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