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JG300-Ascout · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 3:28 pm Post subject: WHOA! Say it isn't true!

Whoa! Stop the presses! Major news item! This is a MAJOR new finding.
(I'm dyin' to know if there was grant money involved in this study, and who was the genius who wrote the grant proposal that netted it, because he's gotta' be freakin' brilliant!) Shocked

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20581183/

Rockers really are more likely to die early
Study points to drug, alcohol abuse as factors in starsâ€™ premature deaths

Updated: 1:41 a.m. PT Sept 4, 2007
LONDON - Rock stars â€” notorious for their â€œcrash and burnâ€? lifestyles â€” really are more likely than other people to die before reaching old age.

A study of more than 1,000 mainly British and North American artists, spanning the era from Elvis Presley to rapper Eminem, found they were two to three times more likely to suffer a premature death than the general population.

Between 1956 and 2005 there were 100 deaths among the 1,064 musicians examined by researchers at the Centre for Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University.

As well as Presley, the toll of those dying before their time included Doors singer Jim Morrison, guitar hero Jimi Hendrix, T Rex star Marc Bolan and Nirvanaâ€™s Kurt Cobain.

More than a quarter of all the deaths were related to drugs or alcohol abuse, said the study in the Journal of Epidemial Community Health.

â€œThe paper clearly describes a population of rock and pop stars who are at a disproportionate risk of alcohol- and drug-related deaths,â€? said Mark Bellis, lead author of the study.

Shades · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:01 pm Post subject: Re: WHOA! Say it isn't true!

lol found that meself earlier.
Now I'm sitting here, with me Les Paul by my side, checking through my life-insurance documents.
Maybe the rum wasn't needed right now.

... or the beer.

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