[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] News notes 2005-10-09

[Carl Estabrook]

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/28/059.html


On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, John W. wrote:

> At 09:45 PM 10/13/2005, Carl Estabrook wrote:
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> >         ==================================================
> >         Notes from last week's "global war on terrorism,"
> >         for the Sunday, 9 October 2005, meeting of AWARE,
> >         "Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort" of Champaign-Urbana.
> >         (Sources provided on request; some are indicated.)
> >         ==================================================
>
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> >[20.] THE INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRY with the best national health is also the
> >largest per capita consumer of cigarettes Japan.  Why is the Japanese
> >national health so good? Relative equality in wealth and income. The more
> >unequal an industrialized country is, the worse its national health is and
> >the US is the most unequal.
>
>
> While this resonates with me personally - i.e., I WANT to believe it's
> true, and viscerally I believe it's true - I guess I'd like to know what
> your source is for this, Carl.  It's just a bunch of conclusions, without
> any supporting evidence whatsoever.
>
> John
>