After the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement, smoking in movies is said to have decreased according to three metrics — proportion, enumeration, and duration.

In the realm of positive mental and emotional associations, smoking, drinking and overeating are capable of forming self-reinforcing loops.

Campaigns that promote healthy eating and exercise may be counterproductive. Those programs should instead educate kids as to why they overeat, and how to cope.

What is the rationale for government involvement in either smoking or the eating patterns that lead to obesity?

The proposed Harvest Box program for SNAP recipients was widely criticized as a “solution without a problem.”

Smoking and obesity are so closely associated because what helps to defeat one might also vanquish the other, or so do the researchers hope.

The McKinsey Global Institute came up with 74 intervention levers in which the obesity epidemic is believed to be vulnerable to pressure.

There is no evidence that stigmatizing overweight and obese people motivates them to lose weight. Instead, information, skills and support are the tools needed.

Childhood Obesity News looks at the limited efficacy of anti-smoking shaming and the almost non-existent usefulness of shaming in the abolition of obesity.

While public anti-smoking campaigns have proven effective, there is collateral damage to the emotional well-being of a particular group: lung cancer patients.

There are reasons why stigmatization is unable to play as large a role in stemming the obesity epidemic as it does in slowing down the rate of smoking.

It would be inaccurate to claim that stigmatization “works” when it comes to both smoking and obesity.

The extent to which stigmatization is responsible for smokers quitting is impossible to tell. For smokers who don’t quit, it’s not always a physical addiction.

Society now finds it easy to blame and hate smokers, even to the point of directly confronting and denouncing them, which is not the case with obesity, yet.

Smoking and obesity are alike enough so that anyone interested in controlling obesity will look to the anti-smoking movement for advice.

Why has counseling for smoking cessation historically been more successful than obesity counseling?

Smoking prevalence and eating disorders are intertwined in the human psyche, but research conclusions about the relationship are not solid.

One study indicated that among people in a quit-smoking program, binge eaters were less likely than normal eaters to abandon nicotine.

While smoking is socially discouraged, it is not easy to argue that obesity really impacts the non-obese.

Professionals who deal with obesity are interested in how people quit smoking as those therapeutic interventions might be transferrable.

We are looking at the similarities between two public health menaces, nicotine and the overconsumption of food, that threaten to bring on an obesity epidemic.

DSM-5 doesn’t accord food dependency the courtesy of calling it a substance abuse disorder; nor does the industry bible specify Tobacco Use Disorder treatments.

There are similarities between nicotine addiction and compulsive overeating, and cognitive behavioral therapy and pharmacological intervention might help both.

Practical tips and the emotional exploration of flying for both obese individuals and their neighbors on commercial airline flights.

Kids with addicted parents can react to gaslighting by “stuffing” their feelings or expressing their chronic anxiety through displacement behaviors.

Some of the suggested obesity causes stem from international trade policies that form the global food system, the market economy, and agricultural policies.

Research shows that the risk of adult obesity in females increases with a childhood ADHD diagnosis, and adversity trauma is linked to childhood obesity.

For people who can’t fit into commercial airline seats, the emotional effects of flying could be serious. But how do the people of conventional weight feel?

Research has shown that improving a city’s public transportation system or building more grocery stores don’t necessarily solve the food desert issue.

Even the most elegantly executed map doesn’t mean zip if, at ground level, it measures the wrong things or depends on skewed data to get answers.