Couch potatoe life worse than smoking??? According to this article that is most definetly the case.

Ha Ha...bring on the lawsuits ala the tabacco movement. Tax on McDonald's done. Tax on ice cream...done. Please tax us skinny like you taxed people into not smoking and drinking...dohhh.

The lifestyle of couch potatoes has overtaken smoking as the major cause of ill-health in EU countries for the first time, the World Health Organisation says.
Dr Aileen Robertson told the European Society of Cardiology annual meeting in Berlin yesterday that doctors and governments must take the issue of diet and exercise more seriously.
Telling people to eat more fruit and vegetables and to take exercise did not work if there were no policies to help people change, she said.
"I am not saying that smoking plays no part in ill-health. I am saying that diet is as important and we have to get that through because it is not understood at the moment."