Stat!: One Step Forward, One Step Back

• Percent decrease in smoking-related deaths in the US between 1960 and 2010: 54
• Percent increase in obesity-related death: 166
• Percent decrease in death from heavy alcohol use: 22
• Percent increase in deaths from firearms: 29
• Percent decrease in death due to motor vehicles: 46
• Percent increase in death by toxins (especially prescription drug overdose): 1005

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• Quality-adjusted years of life Americans have gained thanks to to less smoking, less heavy alcohol use, and safer driving and cars: 1.82
• Quality-adjusted years of life lost due to obesity, firearms, and poisonous substances: 1.77

Source: National Bureau of Economic Research