Health = Wealth

"Evidences show that a person's death risk is inversely proportionate to his socioeconomic status."

A study by the Universities of Toronto and Oxford concludes the following:
"Across two continents, we find that smoking-related diseases account for well over half of the big difference in death rates between rich and poor," says study co-author Richard Peto, professor of medical statistics and epidemiology at the University of Oxford."

"This means widespread cessation of smoking would do more than anything else to narrow the inequalities in health between rich and poor."

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