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To: Katelew who wrote (149682)	11/11/2010 4:35:19 PM
From: Paul Smith	Respond to of 541696

Two thoughts on life expectancy 1) The decline in smoking should have some positive impact on life expectancy. Maybe that positive offsets some of the impact from car exhaust and pesticides? I don't know. 2) I find myself wondering whether at least a bit of the recent gains in life expectancy are caused by people that in the past would have died of natural causes being kept alive by machines for an extra 6 months or more. I know of one case in particular (warning: anecdotal evidence) where a relative that was unable to make decisions had a living will that was ignored because the doctors or hospital seemed to believe that it was safer from a legal standpoint to continue with all sorts of very expensive machines and feeding tubes that I doubt the patient (my relative) would have wanted.

To: Katelew who wrote (149682)	11/11/2010 5:46:04 PM
From: quehubo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541696

Have you seen these pathetic commercials about keeping government out of your grocery budget. I.E. these attempts to perhaps influence buying decisions by making unhealthy consumption taxed more. Amazing 90% of the population has no clue that the medical / food industries are ruining their health and life meanwhile fleecing every penny they can through sales of processed food garbage and then medical treatment. The medicare time bomb is the only significant threat to our nations finances, and presently the government / medical / food industries have created a disaster. Diabetes and pollution of the population with garbage food and medicines will do far more damage than pesticides.