 | A decrease in life expectancy by as much as five to ten years
| A much higher likelihood of dying from liver disease
| Greatly increased rates of pneumonia and esophageal cancer
| Great mental distress
| Greatly increased likelihood of suicide
| High risk of being able to maintain a successful career
| Greatly increased risk of divorce or inability to have a
successful marriage
| Many billions of dollars of economic harm to the nation due to
lost work and health problems caused by the behavior?
| A very low chance that the adverse effects can be overcome without
stopping the behavior
| On the average, only a 30% chance that the behavior can be
overcome after what is typically lengthy and expensive treatment
(though success rates can be high for motivated people) |
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| "A significantly decreased likelihood of establishing a
successful marriage
| "A twenty-five to thirty-year decrease in life
expectancy
| "Chronic, potentially fatal, liver disease - infectious
hepatitis, which increases the risk of liver cancer
| "Frequently fatal rectal cancer
| "Multiple bowel and other infectious diseases
| "A much higher than usual incidence of suicide
| "A very low likelihood that the adverse effects can be
eliminated unless the condition is
| "An at least 50 percent likelihood of being eliminated
through lengthy, often costly, and very time-consuming treatment in
an otherwise unselected group of sufferers (although a very high
success rate, in some instances nearly 100 percent, for groups of
highly motivated, carefully selected individuals)" |
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