Smokers and the Obese — More Similarities and Differences

We have established that both smokers and obese people are often made to feel like pariahs, sometimes out of pure meanness. Other times, it’s because those who sincerely want to help believe that shaming effectively incentivizes behavioral change. Well, does it? Does being ostracized and/or criticized lead people to abandon their harmful habits? How is a question like this answered? For one thing, the research has to depend on an enormous amount of self-reporting, which is the bugaboo of true science. Some people lie, or forget, and others just basically don’t know themselves well enough to make this kind of analysis. An alternative to dependency on self-reporting would be continuous, lifelong surveillance, and even then, what looks like a cause-and-effect

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