Poor health habits can accelerate death by the equivalent of 12 years compared with good habits.

A study of 63,791 Chinese women in the Shanghai Women’s Health Study, age 40-70, who never smoked or used alcohol, reports the combined effects of 5 health habits reduce mortality from all causes by 47%. These health habits included normal weight, lower waist-hip ratio, daily exercise, never exposed to spouse's smoking, and higher daily fruit and vegetable intake. Women with 0-1 of these were found to have death rates equivalent to those 12 years older than their age.

PositiveTip: How are your health habits? Invest now in choosing a healthier lifestyle.

Second-hand smoke causes 3400 lung cancer deaths each year in non-smokers.

This last decade has yielded significant progress toward eliminating smoking in the workplace, restaurants, and bars. Each year in the U.S. 46,000 deaths from heart disease occur in non-smokers from second-hand smoke according to CDC researchers. There are still seven states with no smoke-free laws: Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

PositiveTip: Completely banning smoking in all public areas is the only way to fully protect non-smokers. Do your part in this effort by supporting smoke-free laws.