Smoking and obesity are the two leading causes of preventable deaths in the United States. Because smoking is subject … to heavy government intervention, understanding the effect of smoking on obesity is important in determining the extent …. Our preferred estimate suggests reduced smoking accounts for 6% of the concurrent rise in obesity …

According to the World Health Organization, obesity is one of the greatest public-health challenges of the 21st century …

Much of the increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity has been in developing countries with a history of …

heterogeneity in place effects on adolescent obesity. We exploit the plausibly exogenous assignment of military servicemembers, and … validated survey scale. Using the obesity rate in the assigned installation county as a summary measure of its obesity …-related environments, we show that exposure to counties with higher obesity rates increases the likelihood of obesity among less patient …

There has been significant media attention on the issue of childhood obesity, leading policymakers to reform the … nutritional content maps into obesity outcomes, using panel data on a nationally representative cohort of children, tracking them … participation in the school lunch program leads to weight gain, as measured by changes in obesity, overweight, and BMI. These …

populations above mortality-minimizing bodyweight is not clearly greater in countries with higher overweight and obesity rates (as …