When ever I have to go to the Doctor's or the ER room, the FIRST THING they ask "Are you a smoker." Turns my stomach. But I always say "Yes, but I am not obese." They look at me like I'm nuts. Even the medical field is kept in the dark about obesity. But it's coming out more every day.
Maybe one day, they will forget about asking that question on smoking........and concentrate on weight scales. I really get tired of. I need a break from the anti's.
You are a LOT closer to the truth than you might think here. The government and the medical establishment has long played fast and loose with "smoking-related death" statistics. Pretty much everyone that dies of certain types of cancers is automatically categorized as a "smoking-related death" even if they never touched a single cigarette in their lives. If a patient has ever admitted to smoking for so much as a single month when they were 18, and then dies of any of dozens of different diseases at age 95, they'll be classified as a "smoking-related death".
Given that, you can be sure that anyone who's more than a single pound "overweight" according to an arbitrary chart drawn up by the government, and then dies of pretty much any disease instead of being hit by a bus, will automatically be counted as an "obesity-related death".
Higher "death rates" = more cash for those running the agencies assigned to fight the nonexistent problem, and more cash for the trial lawyer Democrats. Follow the money.