I just saw a news report on CNN . . . . .

[our_man]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
I hate to rain on someone's parade, but stress doesn't really kill people, it's the bad life style that often goes along with stress that kills people. Drinking, smoking, diets high in saturated fats contribute heavily to the excess mortality among menfolk in places like Carlton.

Yes, but isn't it strange that these factors turn out to be more lethal than bullets, bombs and beheadings?

[mrmitchell]

I wonder how the life expectancy in depressed areas of the USA is

(For example, East Arkansas, New Jersey, parts of New Orleans pre or post Katrina, etc)

edit:

from the article:

A child born in the Calton - locals always prefix a "the" to Calton - arrives into an environment saturated by drink, drugs, smoking and poor diet.

Like Ray Nagin said in one of his speeches immediately after Katrina, no one likes to talk about it, but in a lot of places in the US the flow of drugs and booze is just plain huge. Add that to what people love to talk about, a poor diet and smoking, and you see we have a problem.