Health & Medicine
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High Mortality Rates in US Have Shifted to Tobacco-Friendly Southern States
Although adult mortality rates are lower in the US than they are in other developed countries, the geographic location of where people die most frequently in the US has shifted over time and is now concentrated in the central southern part of the nation, according to a new study from a Brown University researcher that suggests smoking may have a role in the mortality shift.
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