[lbo-talk] high U.S. health costs: because we're too fat?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 2 09:23:27 PDT 2007


On Oct 2, 2007, at 12:15 PM, joanna wrote:


> Yeah. Me too. When I was all over Western Europe, four years ago,
> everybody was smoking everywhere. I noticed because I had just quit
> and
> it was tough to be surrounded by it.

Ok, WHO sez about 25% Americans smoke, compared with about 30-35% of Western Europeans. The HA article was referring to over-50s who'd smoked at sometime in their lives.

Doug



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