Data in sentences: Evidence on women and smoking

Usually tables work better than sentences to convey quantitative data, especially when the analytical task is comparison. In this material from the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, however, the presentation method of listed paragraphs of text has great rhetorical power, partly because of the horrifying facts but also because of the presentation style of a deadpan march through the evidence.

Source: Supplement to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Women and Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (August 30, 2002), pp. 2-8.

Data in sentences – Women and Smoking