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Obesity trends will snuff out health gains from decline in smoking
If obesity trends continue, the negative effect on the health of the U.S. population will overtake the benefits gained from declining smoking rates, according to a study by Harvard and University of Michigan researchers published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. “In the past 15 years, smoking rates have declined by 20 percent,…