W.H.O. projections of Healthy Life Expectancy (source World Health Organisation).
Japan 75.0 (years)
France 72.0
UK 70.6
USA 69.3
Brazil 59.8
Philippines 59.3
Pakistan 53.3
Iraq 50.1
Ethiopia 41.2
Mozambique 36.9
Zimbabwe 33.6
France is looking the more and more civilised option.
Not only can you fill your arteries with loads of calorfically laden creamy sauces, washed down by bottle after bottle of wine, whilst smoking everywhere from restaurants to your health spa. Happy in the knowledge that you'll live longer than your nannied cousins across the English Channel, by on average a year and a half.
