The Effect of Country Music on Suicide

I knew it all along but finally someone has proven it (17 years ago)!  Country music will kill you.

"The results of a multiple regression analysis of 49 metropolitan
areas show that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white
suicide rate. The effect is independent of divorce, southernness, poverty, and gun
availability. The existence of a country music subculture is thought to reinforce the link
between country music and suicide"

Read more here.

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