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3/12/2008
People with 12 years of education or more have seen their life expectancies rise faster than those with less education. Researchers say that differences in smoking rates are an important reason for the disparity. Better-educated 25-year-olds could expect to live to age 82, while less-educated adults of the same age could only expect to live to 75. Smoking-related illnesses accounted for much of the mortality gap. Lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder alone accounted for 20 percent of the mortality differences between the two groups.
Source: Join Together
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