Poor face greater health burden than smokers or the obese

The average low-income person loses 8.2 years of perfect health, the average high school dropout loses 5.1 years, and the obese lose 4.2 years, according to public health researchers. Tobacco control has long been one of the most important public health policies, but the nation's huge high school dropout rate and poverty rates are typically not seen as health problems.

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