People need to stop saying "[x] is the new smoking" Smoking is a specific risk factor that BY ITSELF increases your risk of cancer/death by 3000%+ Unless the risk you're talking about is comparable, it's not the "new smoking"
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Most modern issues - like obesity - are made up of numerous risk factors that are themselves comprised of hundreds of different behaviours If you can stop someone smoking, you drop their risk of death enormously. This is not true of sitting
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To be like smoking, a risk has to be both a) very high b) EASILY PREVENTABLE If you can't reduce the risk with a single behavioural change, it's not much like smoking at all
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