[at-l] OT: DEET and NC post.

[rafe.bustin@verizon.net (Raphael Bustin)]

At 05:06 PM 7/6/2002 -0400, Bryan wrote:

>A lot of these concerns about chemicals are not fact based, after all
>the life expectancy has been trending up in the US and if all these
>chemicals that people are so afraid of were really that toxic it would
>be trending down not up.


But the fact remains that the US life expectancy lags behind several
other first-world nations (mostly in Europe;) we're six years below
Japan's figure, for example.

Still and all, I use DEET happily.  Life is full of tradeoffs.


rafe b.
aka terrapin


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