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Check the stats for "largest Muslim country by population" (12%+ of world Muslim pop)followed by "% smoking men in Indonesia" (63%+) to see where that particular generalisation comes from. Live next door and it's pretty sad, even before covid came along and added to the risks

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So your argument is that 63% of 12% constitutes a "vast majority"? That seems pretty tenuous.

It might be better to avoid making sweeping generalizations about a religion with on the order of 2 billion adherents as if it were some kind of monolith.

Edit: also the prevalence of women in Indonesia smoking is between 2% and 6% depending on what population you're looking at.

https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/8/3/327

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