Boomer "vices" take their toll...

As America's baby boomers approach senior status, a troubling number are dying from causes that have marked the generation since the 1960s -- drug abuse, suicide and accidents. A new analysis by Scripps Howard News Service of death records for more than 304,000 boomers who died in 2003 shows the legacies of early and lingering drug use, a tendency toward depression at all stages of life and a stubborn determination not to "act their age." "Baby Boomers Fall Victim To Vices" Scripps Howard News Service Maybe AARP can hire William Bennett to give boomers a lecture on "virtue"...