Thanks.
1. clearly true.
2. how can illegals affect the stats of legals?
3. not sure about this. Europeans take lots of drugs too.
4. interesting. I never heard that one.
The statistics are not broken down by nationality, only by residency (legal or illegal.)
3. Europeans take lots of drugs too.
Not nearly so much, in general, although a few European countries may beat us in selected categories of drug abuse. Even Holland, where marijuana is legal and hard drugs are mostly ignored, has lower rates of drug abuse than the US.
4. interesting. I never heard that one.
Here's more: Infant Mortality Myths.
-ccm