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...bladder disease, osteoarthritis and many forms of cancer. The total medical tab for illnesses related to obesity is $117 billion a year--and climbing--according to the Surgeon General, and the Journal of the American Medical Association reported in March that poor diet and physical inactivity could soon overtake tobacco as the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. And again, Americans recognize the problem. In the TIME/ABC poll they rated obesity alongside heart disease, cancer, AIDS and drug abuse as among the nation's most pressing public health problems...
...earth [to sink] a little bit lower" joked Tommy Thompson, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, in a keynote speech at Wednesday's opening session. In all seriousness, he reported that new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had concluded that obesity "has overtaken tobacco" as the number one cause of preventable deaths in America. Still, Thompson said that the level of attention and energy that's begun to be directed at the problem led him to feel "cautiously optimistic" about the prospects for addressing the epidemic: "I think we are on the verge...
...health risks posed by secondhand smoke are well documented, but what triggered the warning, which was published in the British Medical Journal and is sure to fire up the tobacco lobby, was a small study out of Helena, Mont. When the city passed an ordinance banning indoor smoking in 2002, Helena's only heart hospital recorded a 40% drop in the number of heart attacks (from an average of 40 per six months to just 24 in that city of 26,000). What's more, when a court order lifted the ban half a year later, the heart-attack rate...
Those findings could be significant. The CDC estimates that in the U.S., secondhand smoke causes 35,000 deaths a year from heart disease--a figure some experts believe will have to be revised upward, since 60% of Americans, smokers and nonsmokers, show biological effects of tobacco-smoke exposure. Shepard did offer some reassurance for city dwellers who have to pass through nicotine clouds every time they enter and leave an office building. Exposure for a few seconds probably doesn't do much harm, he says, because the toxins in cigarette smoke are quickly diluted in outside air. --With reporting...
DIED. JOSEPH CULLMAN, 92, who as CEO of Philip Morris from 1957 to '78 plowed through rising concerns about smoking to turn the tobacco company into one of the largest U.S. corporations; in New York City...