Ranting to /dev/null

Unintended consequences

You know all the media noise about the rise in obesity? It's a problem, right? Perhaps not quite as much as was originally thought. Dr. David Williamson, a researcher at the CDC, says that the rise in obesity is likely the result of a drop in smoking. Which makes some since, as most people tend to gain a few pounds when they quit smoking, and the number of people who smoke has fallen by almost a third in the past 20 years.

Is obesity bad for you? Yep. But smoking is orders of magnitude worse. The former is merely unhealthy. The latter involves ingesting poison on a regular basis. You figure it out.