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Lower Air Pollution Means Longer Life
thefickler writes "A new study by the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has found a strong link between air quality and life expectancy. The researchers looked at air pollution, deaths and census data for 51 metropolitan areas between 1978 and 2001, and what they found was a direct correlation between improving air quality and extending life expectancy. People lived about 2.72 years longer over that time span and at least 15 percent of that increased life expectancy was from a decrease in air pollution."
They needed a study to correlate the relationship between heavy coughing and longevity? Being a doctored researcher must be a great life.
I fart in your general direction.
Yes, please throw us all together and stop hampering us with your giant government. That way, by the time we destroy our little area with the evil of doing business, we will have built giant space-faring pleasure yachts and you can watch us fly away into the galaxy from your little government issued mud hut.
But hey, you'll live 5 months longer than me. Whooptee doo.
And that gives us a solution to the libertarian problem. Throw them all together in a small area, let them regulate themselves, and the destruction the wreck on the land and air will kill them all off.
And you hate and despise us Libertarians why? All we want is FREEDOM.
Of course, I can understand perfectly well if you would rather have fascists control your life instead.
Of course, I am wondering what this has to do with air quality.
But I am used to it.
Well, I guess you just can't please everybody. Sigh.
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I used to think that Correlation implied causation; then I took a statistics class. Now I don't.
Sewage Treatment Facilities - "Our duty is clear."
...we will have built giant space-faring pleasure yachts...
BAH! You will have built Ferengi Marauders and will be selling planetary time shares.
What?