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

[JBrown72073 at cs.com]

Michael Pollak wrote:
>Because if you 
>just said who smokes more, it would be Europeans, which would entirely
>contradict the thrust of this apologia, since that's an even greater risk
>factor than being fat.

I thought we were partially getting so fat _because_ we quit smoking.

Doug wrote:
>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.

But don't they say that if you quit, you can avoid most of the damage?  

Jenny Brown   </HTML>