Increasing rates of obesity are so bad they counter-act decreasing rates of smoking. As some of you may have seen from an earlier post, I'm currently working on a project wherein I will be discussing the impact of obesity on human health and on the environment. It is a group project with three other people, so I was given the incredibly easy task of discussing the health issues. Well, one of the fine sources I was able to pull up was a paper detailing how increasing rates of obesity are impacting health and lifespan to such a degree, they are counter-acting the improvement of health from reduced rates of smoking. The paper in question: Just goes to show you that maybe stuffing your face constantly may have a huge impact on your health.