smoking and diet

• smoking & diet - HARPER


  -the greatest fall in death rates in recent decades has come not from medical improvements

  -its come from reduction in number of people smoking

  -in 21st century obesity has replaced smoking as new lifestyle epidemic
• obesity & drug therapies 


  -deaths from obesity have been kept low due to drug therapies

  -Harper suggests we’re moving to an ‘American‘ health culture where lifestyles are unhealthy

  > but long lifespan is achieved by use of costly medication