The only reason many more aren't dying is due to expensive drug treatments heavily subsidized by taxpayers.
Absolutely! Eventually, science will prove that such behavior is avoidable and reversible and be willing to state it. It is already moving toward such. There is not one cause and we are, as a country and species, dangerously becoming part of a problem that will paralyze us and keep humanity from resolving it, thus preventing pain, hardship, suffering and death