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Overindulgence Is Not a Vice in Lafayette, Louisiana

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H 031815 Overindulgent?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1426683901780Monkey Business/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Ah, the sweet smell of excess.

It’s the aroma that wafts through the streets of Lafayette, Louisiana, deemed the number one metro area in the country for overindulgence by badcredit.org.

The website, which bills itself as an authority on bad credit, used four metrics to determine America’s 20 overindulgent cities: percentage of citizens considered “obese;” percentage of citizens considered “heavy drinkers;” percentage of citizens who smoke every day; and average debt per consumer.

That’s not to say that nobody does anything in these cities but have a good time, but there’s a good chunk of the citizenry that appears not to have heard the expression “everything in moderation.”

In Lafayette, for instance, about 30 percent of the population is considered obese, 20 percent smoke daily and nine percent claim to be heavy drinkers.

Here are the top 20 most overindulgent cities in the U.S.A.:

1. Lafayette, Louisiana
2. Great Falls, Montana
3. Mobile, Alabama
4. Scranton, Pennsylvania
5. Bismarck, North Dakota
6. Baton Rouge, Louisiana
7. Montgomery, Alabama
8. Shreveport, Louisiana
9. Salisbury, Maryland
10. New Orleans, Louisiana
11. Jacksonville, Florida
12. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
13. Dayton, Ohio
14. Sioux City, Iowa
15. Rapid City, South Dakota
16. Youngstown, Ohio
17. Toledo, Ohio
18. Charleston, South Carolina
19. Little Rock, Arkansas
20. Spokane, Washington


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