fred@umcp-cs.UUCP (08/26/83)
From: andrew@orca.UUCP A study was recently completed which offers strong evidence that the reason the average lifespan of women is longer than that of men is because many more men than women have long histories of tobacco abuse. . . . -- Andrew Klossner Maybe, but there's one that's even more obvious. Taller people tend to have shorter lifespans (possibly because of the greater strain on their circulatory system due to the gravity gradient :-) ) than shorter people, and the average adult male tends to be taller than the average adult female. Fred Blonder harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!fred
grunwald@uiuccsb.UUCP (08/28/83)
#R:orca:-5000:uiuccsb:9900013:000:535 uiuccsb!grunwald Aug 27 17:48:00 1983 And then again, perhaps it's because men have historically been called upon to stand next to the drop forge, stoke the fires in boiler rooms, do welding at 150 ft while standing on a legde the size of a toothpick, working a coal vein at 1000 ft down, etc etc. Most of these jobs still lie within the realm of "man-only" work. I'm sure that doing those sorts of things tends to have it's draw-backs (cave-ins, collapse, etc etc). The lose of life in such circumstances would certainly lower the average lifetime of men in general.