Being a rock star can kill you!

[Archae]

Another in the "No DUH!" files... :D

Life As A Rock Star Can Kill You

LONDON, Sept. 4, 2007
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(CBS) Fame and fortune aside, life as a rock star can be downright deadly.

CBS News correspondent Larry Miller reports a new study, which charted the lives of 1,050 American and European music artists between 1965 and 2005, has found they are more than twice as likely to die young than the general population.

The information may come as little surprise to anyone who has turned on a television or picked up a magazine in the last 40 years, but it's the first data medical researchers have offered to quantify the perils of life in the proverbial fast lane.

According to the report published in Britain's Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, a quarter of all the musicians' deaths registered during the study period were due to drug or alcohol abuse, reports Miller.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/04/entertainment/main3230264.shtml

[KitchenWitch]

1. And someone, somewhere FUNDED that study!

:dunce:

[noonwitch]

2. That's what happens when you play Satan's music!

I saw some religious, anti-rock website that listed all the rock stars that died premature deaths, whether by plane or car crash, drug overdose or violence. That was their philosphy.