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This latest study of smoking and mortality rates in America provides
encouraging news especially for the anti-smoking lobby. Unfortunately the
study fails to point out that the gap in mortality between the well off
and America's poor has been growing in part due to smoking. Lower
socioeconominc groups in America have the highest rates of smoking and
obesity as reported in the BMJ recently (BMJ 2006;333:25-26 (1 July)).
Smoking and America's class divide
This latest study of smoking and mortality rates in America provides
encouraging news especially for the anti-smoking lobby. Unfortunately the
study fails to point out that the gap in mortality between the well off
and America's poor has been growing in part due to smoking. Lower
socioeconominc groups in America have the highest rates of smoking and
obesity as reported in the BMJ recently (BMJ 2006;333:25-26 (1 July)).
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