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The hand-picked subjects in "Sick" don't reflect the full range of causes for so much poor health in this country, many of them rooted in inertia: not watching one's diet or exercising, drinking to excess, smoking.
Drinking to excess, smoking, little or no exercise, a poor diet, the use of recreational drugs without due consideration for their long-term effects, no current meaningful relationships to speak of.
This constellation of factors may contribute to excess smoking among such migrant workers [ 6, 17, 21].
A potential alternative explanation for their excess smoking may be that employment in construction facilitates on-the-job smoking.
Therefore, excess smoking in this population compared with the general U.S. population is unlikely to explain the elevated lung cancer and ischemic heart disease rates.
Several studies suggest that Chinese rural urban migrants have excess smoking prevalence, and that their smoking behavior is linked to high stress [ 6, 16- 18, 21].
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However, our results are only in part consistent with this association, in which certain causes of smoking-attributable deaths showed a deficit (smoking-associated vascular mortality: ischaemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease), whereas others showed an excess (smoking-related respiratory mortality: COPD and allied conditions).
The one person we all expected to keel over from all kinds of excess was smoking, drinking and eating rich food right up until the end.
However, with regard to the overall extent of male excess mortality, smoking is the main driver only in the minority of the studied populations.
Data indicate that risk factors such as excess alcohol, smoking and being overweight are not detected by General Practitioners (GPs) for a significant proportion of general practice patients [ 8, 11, 12].
Thus, cardiovascular risk factors and unhealthy lifestyle-related factors (for example, excess weight, smoking, and physical inactivity) potentially constitute risk factors for lumbar disc disease; however, empirical evidence remains controversial.
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