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April 23, 2003
Sure to be widely blogged:
Sure to be widely blogged: New Yorkers live longer than other Americans. It's only 6 months longer, but still: think about all we accomplish in those 6 months! That's 6 more months of Ectasy, 6 more months of unprotected sex with strangers, and 6 more months of $45 hamburgers.
The downside: 4 out of 10 of us die from heart disease, but that stat may be on the decline, too, because of the smoking ban: "Smoking killed more people in New York among preventable deaths, causing about 14 percent of the deaths from heart disease and a quarter of cancer deaths, the research showed."
Here's the whole report from the city's department of health. The first page of the report has this great chart titled "The Conquest of Pestilence in New York City", which features death rates annotated by milestones in the city's pestilent history. Page 7 has a list of all the causes of death in the city in 2001, divided by borough, race, and gender.
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