Good news, everyone!

[tevarin]

"Americans are living longer because the air they breathe is getting cleaner, a new study suggests. The average drop in pollution seen across 51 metropolitan areas between 1980 and 2000 appears to have added nearly five more months to people's lives, according to a study published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.Read more... )

Comments

[subjectivity]

The New England Journal of Medicine is not going to publish a study that doesn't control for confounding factors. I think we can trust these results. I agree, it's great news! We have also gained a few IQ points in the same time period due to unleaded gasoline.

[anonymous]

Did they say which five months were added? I'm not very fond of spring or summer, frankly.

--josh

[tevarin]

Octember, I think.