Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!whuxle!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women,net.followup Subject: smoking vs sex Message-ID: <2670@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 14:25:42 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.2670 Posted: Tue Jun 5 14:25:42 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jun-84 07:34:17 EDT Lines: 18 RESEARCHERS SAY SMOKING MORE SIGNIFICANT THAN SEX IN PENNSYLVANIA The December issue of SCIENCE 83 (published by AAAS as a 'popular' magazine) reports in a brief news item on a study in Erie, Pennsylvania of about 8000 deaths due to disease (not accident). According to their results, all but 10% of the difference in life expectancy between men and women was shown to be due to smoking. No one study is conclusive, but this is certainly an interesting result. D Gary Grady Duke University Computation Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-4146 USENET: {decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary