Translation of Adam’s post (RUS)

I was playing around with the blog survey function yesterday, comparing the LiveJournal audience with the one at Yvision (yvision.kz). The last time I did such a thing was the day before they approved on the Internet bill, which the yvisionites said the president would refuse to sign in a fit of democracy, and the hardened livejournalites predicted would pass.

Recently, I’ve had the impression that many people are quitting smoking. But this only includes people around me and of approximately my age. I became curious – what about the others? Perhaps, while five of us are painfully giving up the habit, fifty young bloggers are taking their first drags.

As it turned out, out of my 69 LJ friends who voted, 38% don’t smoke and haven’t tried. 30% have quit. Wow! At one point, the number of smokers (32%) significantly exceeded the number of non-smokers, but not for long. In the YV poll, 143 friends took part (the higher number may have been the result of the ban on LJ). Of them, 62% don’t smoke and never have; 18% have quit and 20% smoke.

It looks like Kazakhstan’s youth prefers a healthy lifestyle. The YV demographic is radically different from the one on LJ. Over 40% of bloggers on LJ are over 30. Only 2% are under 20. At YV, the young dominate: 10% are over 30, over 30% are younger than 20 and over 50% are 21-25. Interestingly, very few are age 25-29.