[Peace] News notes 2005-10-09

[John W.]

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