The state's public-health statistics also show that, unusually, there has been no sharp rise in smoking by young people.

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Yet public-health statistics show that cardiovascular-disease rates in the county are actually lower than average, probably because its smoking rates are quite low.

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Both counties have a population of roughly seven hundred thousand, similar public-health statistics, and similar percentages of non-English speakers, illegal immigrants, and the unemployed.

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This indifference to public health shows up in other statistics.

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Mr. DE MISTURA: It would be good if we could have access to the ministry of health's public available data about mortality statistics, because it does help all of us to be able to confront a reality on the ground in terms of the figures and the impacts.

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He recited a list of statistics, outlining progress in public safety, health and education.

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