August 21st, 2008 09:30

Homosexuality is more Detrimental than Smoking

According to a study, smoking can short the smoker lifespan from 1 to 7 years.

But in a new study was analyzed of the age of death in Norway and Denmark for gays who are legally married suggests that engaging in homosexual behavior reduces the lifespan by 24 years.

 

According to Dr. Paul Cameron research, married gays and lesbians lived 24 fewer years than their conventionally married counterparts.

 

In Denmark, the country with the longest history of gay marriage, for 1990-2002, married heterosexual men died at a median age of 74 years old, while the 561 partnered gays died at an average age of 51.

 

In Norway, married heterosexual men died at an average age of 77 and the 31 gays at 52 years old. In Denmark, married women died at an average age of 78 years old compared to 56 years for the 91 lesbians.  In Norway, women married to men died at an average age of 81 years old but gays at 56 years and 60 years for lesbians.

 

Dr. Cameron said: "The consistency of reduced lifespan for those engaging in homosexuality is significant. The same pattern of early death turned up whether we looked at obituaries in the U.S. or deaths in marriage. Given the greatly reduced lifespan for homosexuals, school children should be strongly and consistently warned about the dangers of homosexuality even more so than smoking. Those school districts which are introducing pro-gay curricula need to rethink their priorities."

After controlling for demographic variables, logistic regression analysis showed that lesbians and bisexual women were significantly more likely to smoke compared with heterosexual women. Gay men were also significantly more likely to smoke than heterosexual men. Being 35-44-years-old, non-Hispanic.

White people who have low-education attainment and low-household income were common demographic predictors of cigarette smoking among LGB.

This study provides the strongest evidence to date those lesbian, bisexual females, and gay men that had significantly higher cigarette smoking prevalence rates than their heterosexual counterparts.

In addition, in regards to homosexuality and health, the homosexuality population has significantly lower rates of various measures of mental health too.