Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information in the graph below.

The line graph provides information on the
number
of
smokers
per 1,000 people based on
gender
from 1960 to 2000.
Overall
, more men smoke than women over the decades, but the difference between the
number
of
smokers
is gradually getting smaller. When it comes to each
gender
, more men smoke than women do in forty years.Starting at about 600
smokers
in 1960, the
number
of male
smokers
continuously decreased to about 250
smokers
in 2000.
On the contrary
, the
amount
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number
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of female
smokers
increased from 100
smokers
to 300
smokers
between 1960 and 1975.
then
, there was a gradual decrease to 200
smokers
from 1980 to 2000. Compared to both
gender
of
smokers
, the difference between the
number
of both is getting smaller and smaller over the forty decades.
Although
there were about five hundred men
smokers
more than women, the figure get closer to about fifty. In brief, except from 1960 to 1975, the rates of both
gender
of
smokers
are decreasing to less than thirty
percent
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.
Furthermore
, the gap between the rate of male and female
smokers
is getting close.
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