Where you live linked to life expectancy

AP on Yahoo ^ | 9/11/06 | Lauren Neegaard - ap

[Gumdrop]

I was surprised about Hawaii too. Maybe it's the large population of Asians.

[ansel12]

"Drinking. I think anyone that works in the health fields will tell you alcoholism knocks 20 years off a person's life."


Every body knows it is drinking, that is why I thought my suggestion was amusing.

[gcruse]

"Billie Jo McAllister"

I think Billy Joe killed himself because of the feminine mispelling of his name.

[mollynme]

Those Colorado counties with the high life expectancies are at high altitude. Anyone with cardiac or respiratory problems can't live up there, leaving just the younger, healthier ones with potentially longer life spans. IMHO, anyway.

[RedStateRocker]

Thanks.

At a seminar on public speaking I once had the chance to hear, close and personal, a particular ex-President that we all know and loath talk about staying 'on message', Scumbag he may well be but effective communicator no one could deny. he stated "Always have three versions of your message a twenty minute one, a two minute one, and a ten to twenty second soundbite- ready to go. so as to make optimal, nearly preplanned use of whatever time or space the media gives you", so i tried to condense my own weird admixture of Nationalist, conservative and libertarian dogmas into something that wold fit on a metaphorical bathroom wall.