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I wonder if it's because men are much more likely to smoke and drink heavily...
by hylaride 8y ago
I wonder if it's because men are much more likely to smoke and drink heavily...
- RmDen 8y agoProbably also because unlike women..men will wait a long time to go to the doctor
- redbone 8y agoMore likely it's due to the fact that men are more likely to work in fields that force them into contact with carcinogens. Road workers, oil rig workers, construction workers, etc.
- belorn 8y agoSweden has significant reduced the number of smokers, and it is the only country where more women then men smoke. Alcohol usage has also significant dropped, and the difference in usage between women and men is within a couple of percentiles: 32.1% (Women) vs 34.6% (Men). The disparity in male vs female mortality is only slightly reduced. 3.3 years (Sweden) vs 4.5 years (USA). There was a sociology study from 2008 that even claimed that the disparity is artificial small in Sweden because women smoke more then men. They said that it should be much higher (in favor of women) if we removed smoking as a factor. In context smoking is also estimated to lower mortality by 14 years.