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Tobacco Taxes Drive Obesity - A wacky but intersting angle ... "People are getting fatter – and developing more diseases and health problems – because they don’t smoke. And government taxes on tobacco may be contributing to the weight problem. Fast food has been identified as especially contributing to Americans' increasing waistlines. But, according to a report in Canada's National Post newspaper, there is another culprit: High tobacco taxes. How so? It's because the taxes are doing exactly what they were designed to do—encourage people to quit smoking. And when they do, the appetites of ex-smokers tend to get healthier too." What about too much TV-watching?
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