Health in Tagmatium

The average life expectancy is 81.3 years, 78.1 for men and 84.6 for women. The Tagmatine government has undertaken significant anti-smoking programmes under the reign of Kommodos III, which have included the banning of smoking in all public places. This took affect in June 2007. This, coupled with environmental policies that have led to a reduction in air pollution, has had a positive impact on the life expectancy of the population, especially when it comes to respiratory diseases. Tagmatium has a low rate of obesity for a developed country on Eurth, with 8.9 percent of the population considered obese. One of the factors in this is the religious nature of the nation, as being obese is sometimes held to be indicative of a sinful nature. Alcohol consumption is above the wurld average and related deaths are equally proportionally high. Many previously-illegal drugs, such as heroin and cannabis, were controversially decriminalised in 2006, with the focus becoming on treating addicts rather than punishing them. This saw treatment programmes set up, with both in-patient and out-patient. This has reduced the drug related deaths from 17.8 million in 2005 to 3 per million in 2019.