"Mexico Safer than Headlines Indicate"
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The title is "Mexico safer then headlines indicate," I disagree. I have come to my own conclusions based on my own experiance, research and frequent visits. Jax, sorry you dont like the fact that what I have said doesnt fall in line with what your buddy is talking about. You think because the SFChronical posted something with a fancy map their opinion has a more substantial bases... I guess if its in the news we should believe it... Bah,bah,bah little sheep. Do your own research, hopefully thats more then listening to me or somebody at a dive shop trying to promote tourism in a down economy...
Oh, hell, let me help you, as you seem to have an alligator mouth overcoming your canary butt.
How do you get 2900? Are you adding the Amercans killed in the American-Spanish war?
Mexico's Drug War Takes Growing Toll On Americans | Fox News
How do you get 2900? Are you adding the Amercans killed in the American-Spanish war?
Mexico's Drug War Takes Growing Toll On Americans | Fox News
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By your calculations one internet link is no better then the next. Its a mute point, I can list several to include US government websites, tourism websites, wiki for death toll facts. Do your own search, I doubt you will find anything that states exactly what I said the way I said it. I just made a comparison between the 2 wars (those numbers are approximate enough to make the point) given what was said earlier about the war on drugs being small potatoes... Your big kid, look it up....Shiaat you want me to book your hotel and massage while im compiling everything for you in nice package with an interactive map.
"War on drugs" As of January 2011 with in 4 1/2 yrs to date appox-40,000 dead of which approx 2900 were foreiners. (thats from the mexican consulates office) I said Americans, sorry I usually associate foreiners in mexico as americans... My bad.
35,700 Deaths Could Be Prevented Annually by Strong Soot Standards
New report analyzes health benefits of long overdue protective soot standards
Washington, D.C. (November 16, 2011)
Up to 35,700 premature deaths can be prevented in the United States every year if the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) strengthens the health standards for fine particulate matteralso known as sootaccording to a new report, Sick of Soot: How the EPA Can Save Lives by Cleaning Up Fine Particle Pollution, prepared by the American Lung Association, Clean Air Task Force and Earthjustice.
Soot, technically known as PM2.5 (fine particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers or less), is generated by coal-fired power plants, diesel and other vehicles, agricultural burning, wood stoves and industrial combustion. Though the pollution particles in soot are tiny1/30th the width of a human hairthey can have a huge impact on human health. Research links them to premature death, heart attacks, stroke, worsened asthma and possibly cancer and developmental and reproductive harm.
The Clean Air Act requires that the EPA set national air quality standards for soot at levels that protect public health with a margin of safety. To adequately protect children, seniors and people with lung disease, heart disease, and diabetes from these dangers, Sick of Soot shows that the EPA should tighten the current standard to an annual level of 11 μg/m3 and a daily level of 25 μg/m3.
Cleaning up the air to meet the standards outlined above could spare the nation every year from as many as:
35,700 premature deaths;
2,350 heart attacks;
23,290 visits to the hospital and emergency room;
29,800 cases of acute bronchitis;
1.4 million cases of aggravated asthma; and
2.7 million days of missed work or school due to air pollution-caused ailments.
New report analyzes health benefits of long overdue protective soot standards
Washington, D.C. (November 16, 2011)
Up to 35,700 premature deaths can be prevented in the United States every year if the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) strengthens the health standards for fine particulate matteralso known as sootaccording to a new report, Sick of Soot: How the EPA Can Save Lives by Cleaning Up Fine Particle Pollution, prepared by the American Lung Association, Clean Air Task Force and Earthjustice.
Soot, technically known as PM2.5 (fine particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers or less), is generated by coal-fired power plants, diesel and other vehicles, agricultural burning, wood stoves and industrial combustion. Though the pollution particles in soot are tiny1/30th the width of a human hairthey can have a huge impact on human health. Research links them to premature death, heart attacks, stroke, worsened asthma and possibly cancer and developmental and reproductive harm.
The Clean Air Act requires that the EPA set national air quality standards for soot at levels that protect public health with a margin of safety. To adequately protect children, seniors and people with lung disease, heart disease, and diabetes from these dangers, Sick of Soot shows that the EPA should tighten the current standard to an annual level of 11 μg/m3 and a daily level of 25 μg/m3.
Cleaning up the air to meet the standards outlined above could spare the nation every year from as many as:
35,700 premature deaths;
2,350 heart attacks;
23,290 visits to the hospital and emergency room;
29,800 cases of acute bronchitis;
1.4 million cases of aggravated asthma; and
2.7 million days of missed work or school due to air pollution-caused ailments.
