Obesity and smoking are the two major risk factors for several dreadful diseases reported worldwide. Although there is a lot of awareness about the irreparable harm caused by these two factors, very few people quit tobacco or adapt the healthy lifestyle modifications which can improve their overall health. In this regard, recently, a local health committee in the UK announced a controversial policy that plans to ban access to routine, or non-urgent, surgery- for an indefinite time- in the obese and smoker patients until they improve their health status.
However, the policy stated that exceptional clinical circumstances can be considered on a case-by-case basis. Furthermore, the time frame has been announced for improving health for the obese in particular; those patients with a body mass index over 40 must reduce the number by 15% over nine months and, and those with a BMI over 30 are…
