Obesity, second to smoking as the most preventable cause of US deaths, needs new approaches
- Written by Dana Goldman, Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair and Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Pharmacy, and Economics, University of Southern California
Social campaigns to address the obesity crisis in America are failing. Lightspring/Shutterstock.com
The opioid crisis and deaths related to e-cigarette use among teenagers have dominated news headlines recently. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 34 people had died as a result of vaping and, in 2017, opioid...