To ask what's the gravest longterm health risk - smoking, drinking or obesity?

[Proudnscary]

I drink too much. So does my dh. I'd say probably three times weekly guidelines [bublush].

We don't smoke (well I don't, he has a crafty 2 or 3 a week he thinks I don't know about [buhmm]).

We are not over weight (could possibly do with losing 7lbs each).

Dh therefore says we are fine to indulge in one vice.

He also reckons being morbidly obese and smoking are far worse than drinking.

I say bullshit.

Any doctors, researchers, nurses got a definitive answer? Say if you based it on say the ratio of 20 fags a day v bottle of wine a day v being 2 stone overweight?

Of the options given in the OP, I'd say smoking would be the worst, closely followed by the bottle of wine a day. 2 stone overweight is unlikely to have that much of a drastic effect on health unless there are other health problems. Having said that, I tend to only see people with health problems when they are at an emergency stage - I see more people with COPD than liver failure.

It's ages since I learned this, so it may have changed - most causes that killed smokers were classed as smoking-related disease. So, if a smoker died of a heart attack, he died of smoking-related heart disease. If the victim was an otherwise healthy non-smoker, he had heart disease (without the associative 'smoking-related').

If this hasn't changed - and I don't know - I'd guess it's now also possible to be classed as having alcohol-related or obesity-related heart disease?

Not to say any of the above are good for you, or that they don't cause extra disease. Just that waters may be somewhat muddied by the data management.

the thing that is underplayed is Being Active - I agree, Whatme!

planetsave.com/2012/02/20/100-year-old-from-france-sets-world-cycling-record-for-a-100-year-old/
and
planetsave.com/2011/03/24/worlds-oldest-cyclist-rides-his-bike-nearly-everyday-at-103/

... but then there's
casesblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/100-year-old-doctor-still-practicing.html

Does lifting a fag to my lips about 150 times a day count as exercise?

Good luck Proudnscary! I will do it with you. (Too broke to buy wine at the mo anyway!)

You're on nowthen!