Obesity has increased with decrease smoking, but yet obesity will be more of impact than smoking. Another liberal failure.

Report: Obesity to Lower U.S. Life Span
LINDSEY TANNER, AP Original Article

U.S. life expectancy will fall dramatically in coming years because of obesity, a startling shift in a long-running trend toward longer lives, researchers contend in a report published Thursday. By their calculations — disputed by skeptics as shaky and overly dire — within 50 years obesity likely will shorten the average life span of 77.6 years by at least two to five years. That's more than the impact of cancer or heart disease, said lead author S. Jay Olshansky, a longevity researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago.