Obesity will snuff out health benefits gained by smoking declines

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 17:49 in Health & Medicine

If obesity trends continue, the negative effect on the health of the U.S. population will overtake the benefits gained from declining smoking rates, according to a study by U-M and Harvard researchers published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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