NBC News - smoking in China
Feb. 10th, 2008 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeanvieveI wonder if anyone has ever researched the effects of the tobacco industry on weight in the US.
They were just talking about how Indonesia, China, and India were the worlds largest growing smoking nations, with the numbers in China smoking now larger than the entire total population of the US. Now, we have an image in our heads of the slender Asian physique. The healthy people, of herbs and seaweeds and not too much meat. They're going to get skinnier with all the Starbucks and Marlboroughs.
But in 10 years, they'll start to push the no smoking campaigns as the state run health care systems start suffering under the smoke related long term effects from cancer to asthma. So. They'll start to give up smoking en masse in obedience to the governmental pushing. (Far more complicated than the sentence suggests.)
Will they gain weight without the coffee and cigarettes? How much? Did the cigarette pushes during the first and second world wars directly affect our weight as a people today? Not to blame my grandfather's smoking on my weight, but what is the statistical correlation?
They were just talking about how Indonesia, China, and India were the worlds largest growing smoking nations, with the numbers in China smoking now larger than the entire total population of the US. Now, we have an image in our heads of the slender Asian physique. The healthy people, of herbs and seaweeds and not too much meat. They're going to get skinnier with all the Starbucks and Marlboroughs.
But in 10 years, they'll start to push the no smoking campaigns as the state run health care systems start suffering under the smoke related long term effects from cancer to asthma. So. They'll start to give up smoking en masse in obedience to the governmental pushing. (Far more complicated than the sentence suggests.)
Will they gain weight without the coffee and cigarettes? How much? Did the cigarette pushes during the first and second world wars directly affect our weight as a people today? Not to blame my grandfather's smoking on my weight, but what is the statistical correlation?
