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More people in Europe are dying than are being born, according to a new report co-authored by a Texas A&M University demographer. In contrast, births exceed deaths, by significant margins, in Texas and elsewhere in the U.S., with few exceptions.
Texas A&M Professor of Sociology Dudley Poston, along with Professor Kenneth Johnson, University of New Hampshire, and Professor Layton Field, Mount St. Mary's University, published their findings in Population and Development Review this month.
The researchers find that 17 European nations have more people dying in them than are being born (natural decrease), including three of Europe's more populous nations: Russia, Germany and Italy. In contrast, in the U.S. and in the state of Texas, births exceed deaths by a substantial margin.
http://phys.org/news/2016-01-people-europe-dying-born.html
[Abstract]: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2015.00089.x/abstract (DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2015.00089.x)
[Source]: Is Europe Dying
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @08:00AM
In the UK the tobacco taxes bring in many times more money than the smokers cost the NHS.
If people want to die for their country why not let them?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MostCynical on Saturday January 16 2016, @09:28AM
AC is correct:
https://fullfact.org/factchecks/does_smoking_cost_as_much_as_it_makes_for_the_treasury-29288 [fullfact.org]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mtrycz on Saturday January 16 2016, @12:32PM
That's the most cynical thing I've heard this year.
In capitalist America, ads view YOU!
(Score: 1) by Francis on Saturday January 16 2016, @02:32PM
Because we don't cut people off from health care because they fuck up their bodies with poisons. Also, most of the things that cut down life expectancies for the individual cause social problems for other people. Smoking has 2nd hand smoke; drinking has violence, drunk driving and all sorts of other consequences.
Even things like lack of exercise and poor nutrition have social costs for people that are choosing to live a healthier life.