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No smoking in the home or the car
In one line
About 600,000 deaths in 2004 were attributed to secondhand smoke, and roughly 3 in 10 of those deaths were children. Home is where people breathe it the longest.
What it costs
Free. You have to say that the home and the car are non-smoking.
What you get
Öberg et al. (Lancet, 2011) estimated 603,000 deaths from secondhand smoke in 2004, with 28% of those deaths in children and 61% of the health loss falling on children.
How strong the evidence is
Source
Öberg M et al. (2011). Lancet.
Watch-outs
Quitting yourself is a different item. This one is about people, especially children, who don’t smoke and still breathe it.
Adapted from HowToLiveBetter item 2-2.
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Best valueDon’t starve or purge to control weight
People with anorexia nervosa died at about 5.9 times the rate of their peers. Long stretches of severe dieting made an eating disorder much more likely. Moving more is the safer side of weight control.
Quit smoking. Sooner keeps more years
A U.S. study reported that people who kept smoking lived more than 10 years less, on average, than people who never smoked. Quitting before 40 avoided most of the extra risk of death from continuing.
Brush, and clean between the teeth once a day
A Japanese follow-up found slightly fewer deaths among people who used floss or an interdental brush. Older adults with few teeth left were on the higher-death side. That does not prove the floss caused the difference.