Smoking Down, Obesity Up: Coincidence?

  

Cigarette smoking has shown a slow but steady decline since the three-year average of 1983-85, when 29% of adults smoked cigarettes. Cigarette usage shows an inverse trend to being overweight and obese, which have both steadily climbed in frequency since 1983-85 according to MetLife tables, when 59% of adults were overweight and 15% were obese.

As a former smoker, I gotta say: I quickly gained ten pounds after I quit. Just sayin. Read the rest at Marketing Charts.

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