September 12, 2003
Oh, the Humanities!
Humanities graduates die young. That's one finding of a study of 8,367 Scottish men who attended the University of Glasgow at some point from 1948 to 1968.
A paper describing the study, published in the August issue of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, says that while law and medical students smoked the most at the university, relatively few medical-school graduates died of lung cancer. The study found that humanities graduates were more likely to die early than were their
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