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To: britemp

When controlled for murder and auto accidents, which Americans die from at a far greater rate than any other industrialized nation, we are the longest living.


20 posted on 09/25/2007 12:56:25 PM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Phantom Lord

‘When controlled for murder and auto accidents, which Americans die from at a far greater rate than any other industrialized nation, we are the longest living.’

Are you sure? One seventh of 1% of the US population die on the roads every year, so if we add one seventh of 1% to your life expectancy, it makes virtually no difference. Same story with murders - 13,000 Americans murdered, less than a 20th of 1% of the population isn’t going to increase or decrease average life expectancy by much. There are several industrialised nations with higher murder and road death rates than the US.


23 posted on 09/25/2007 2:02:35 PM PDT by britemp
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