Andrew

Damn you, you took the words out of my mouth ! :-)

However, I would also suggest that the populous counties with the
highest lead levels have those levels because of the lead flying out
from the muzzles of firearms, potentially more lethal than more
permanently airborne lead :-)

Brian

> Andrew Hoggan wrote:
>
> KO, I'm claiming this one, there's PhD in Social Sciences here. Let's
> See, more airborne lead, more automobiles, high population density,
> more murders; low airborne lead, less automobiles, lower population
> density, less murders. It's mine I thought of it first.
>
>
>
>
>
>      -----Original Message-----
>      From: Leadfree [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Michael
>      Lester
>      Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 10:23
>      To: [log in to unmask]
>      Subject: [LF] Lead Kills?
>
>      More Lead, More Murders
>      Study Finds Correlation Between Killings and Lead in the Air
>
>      F O R T C O L L I N S, Colo., May 16 — A new study that
>      suggests a
>      correlation between airborne lead levels and the murder
>      rate.
>
>      The research showed that in counties across the United
>      States with the
>      highest airborne lead levels, the murder rate was
>      correspondingly high. It
>      said that the murder rate was four time higher in the
>      counties with the
>      highest lead levels than in counties with the lowest.Among
>      the counties where
>      the trend was most evident: Baltimore, Dallas, San Francisco
>      and Cheboygan in
>      Michigan.The study was co-authored by Colorado State
>      University assistant
>      professor Paul Stretesky, a sociologist, and Michael Lynch,
>      a criminology
>      professor at the University of South Florida, Tampa. It was
>      published Tuesday
>      in the online edition of the Journal of the American Medical
>      Association. No
>      Direct Causal RelationshipThe research does not show a
>      direct causal
>      relationship between airborne lead levels and higher
>      homicide rates, but
>      could mean that people exposed to higher lead levels are
>      predisposed toward
>      violent behavior, the authors said.“If the association
>      uncovered in this
>      analysis is truly reflective of a causal relationship, these
>      findings may
>      have important policy implications that link the need for
>      continued efforts
>      toward lead abatement,” the article reads.The research
>      studied 1990 data from
>      all 3,111 U.S. counties except Alaska and Hawaii, comparing
>      the murder rate
>      with the Environmental Protection Agency’s estimates of
>      air concentrations of
>      lead and blood levels of lead. It factored out other things
>      like poverty
>      levels, race, other pollutants, and education levels.Two
>      previous studies
>      concluded that there was a correlation between lead
>      poisoning and
>      delinquency. The latest research focuses exclusively on the
>      murder
>      rate.Stretesky acknowledged that more work needs to be done
>      to establish a
>      direct link between lead levels and the homicide rate.“I
>      think at this point
>      it’s pretty much speculative and we need to do more
>      research,” Stretesky
>      said. [Image]

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