Obesity or lung cancer?

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GORDON
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Obesity or lung cancer?

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Today while driving I had a random thought.... what if the obesity epidemic had some correlation to the reduction in smoking? The old saying was that French girls were so skinny because they smoked instead of eating... what if, as a population, the major decrease in smoking has led to the major increase in obesity?

If so, what's better? Maybe getting lung cancer, or definitely being fat with all the health problems that come with it? Does anyone get fat without the diabetes/heart disease/clogged arteries? Because sometimes people smoke all their lives and it doesn't kill them.
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You are much more likely to die from heart disease with smoking than you are lung cancer. Using cancer to scare you out of smoking is much more effective than heart disease because you can't have Yul Brynner make a commercial while dying of a heart attack like you can with lung cancer.

I don't blame the decrease in smoking. I blame that everything has a remote or is wi-fi enabled now. I'm just waiting for a way for us to shit on our cell phones and then we'll never leave the couch.
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Vince wrote: I blame that everything has a remote or is wi-fi enabled now. I'm just waiting for a way for us to shit on our cell phones and then we'll never leave the couch.
You have a point and other people have noticed. That's why this is now a thing: "Sitting is the new smoking."
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