Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data regarding varicella (chickenpox) virus incidence and mortality rates.

Statistics on U.S. smoking rates and tobacco taxation rates for all fifty states.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/state_data/

Related Data Story: State-Level Policies Reduce Smoking Rates Nationwide

If you’re an American over the age of 25, you may remember chickenpox -- formally known as the varicella zoster virus -- as an inevitable rite of passage. As the Center for Disease Control has written: “Before the availability of varicella vaccine in the United States almost everyone had varicella.” [[source](https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/surv-manual/chpt17-varicella.html)]

Since the [first studies were published in 1950 linking tobacco use to lung cancer](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/tobacco/tobacco_history.htm) there has been exponential attention on the issue of smoking. As new research determines links between tobacco-use and harmful side effects such as cancer, policy and disincentives grow in strictness.