Sentence Correction (SC) | Although the government's expenditures on law suits involving tobacco

Hi Dmitry,

In the last example, The number of smokers is lower than the number of non-smokers.

would n't, "The number of smokers is fewer than the number of non-smokers"
sound better?, because for countable nouns, we use fewer.

In other words, fewer and lower same?

Please clarify.

Thanks

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