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Comment by woodruffw

3 days ago

That might have something more to do with almost one in four people in India being a tobacco user[1]. CDC suggests that one in four CVD deaths (in the US) is caused by tobacco use[2].

[1]: https://globalactiontoendsmoking.org/research/tobacco-around...

[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/about/cigarettes-and-cardiovascu...

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givemeethekeys  3 days ago

It has more to do with people who are on farming diets but no longer farm.

People in India smoked just as much when they weren't living such sedentary lifestyles.

  • woodruffw  3 days ago

    I don't understand the claim: is it that farming diets are unhealthy, or something else? I'd expect subsistence lifestyles to have higher all-round mortality, but probably not CVD specifically.

    > People in India smoked just as much when they weren't living such sedentary lifestyles.

    I suspect they also lived shorter lives for the aforementioned all-round mortality reasons.