Re:Life expectancy for men in US falls to 73 – six years les...
by rgmerk on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @02:54AM
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Agreed on fentanyl, but there are other areas where nanny-stating saves lives.
The evidence on higher tobacco and alcohol taxes, for instance, is pretty irrefutable.
Or, moving up the implausibility scale in the American context, drastic reductions in the availability of handguns including the mass forfeiture of existing weapons (which has been done in a number of other developed countries).
You may not like any of these, particularly the last, but the fact is that they would increase life expectancy significantly.
The evidence on higher tobacco and alcohol taxes, for instance, is pretty irrefutable.
Or, moving up the implausibility scale in the American context, drastic reductions in the availability of handguns including the mass forfeiture of existing weapons (which has been done in a number of other developed countries).
You may not like any of these, particularly the last, but the fact is that they would increase life expectancy significantly.