article_snippet.sent: The findings will add to fears that the rising consumption of alcohol and unhealthy food is taking a terrible toll.
article_snippet.sent: Professor John Ashton, president of the UK Faculty of Public Health, said:
article_snippet.sent: One of the issues we have seen is women living lifestyle’s becoming more like those of men over recent decades, with more smoking and drinking.
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article_snippet.sent: He also suggested the falls could reflect cutbacks in social care, which He said had been ‘hammered’ in recent years.
article_snippet.sent: Public Health England called the falls statistically significant.