Estimated smelter strike–related decreases in mortality (and 95% CIs) for all four Southwest states using alternative models

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Mortality Effects of a Copper Smelter Strike and Reduced Ambient Sulfate Particulate Matter Air Pollution"</p><p></p><p>Environmental Health Perspectives 2007;115(5):679-683.</p><p>Published online 4 Jan 2007</p><p>PMCID:PMC1867960.</p><p>This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original DOI</p> Black, red, blue, and green symbols indicate the inclusion of total mortality counts from all other U.S. states, eastern U.S. states, neighboring states, or bordering states, respectively. Squares, triangles, and circles indicate models that additionally included none, just influenza/ pneumonia, or all six nationwide cause-of-death variables, respectively

Monthly mortality counts for the four Southwest states plotted over time

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Mortality Effects of a Copper Smelter Strike and Reduced Ambient Sulfate Particulate Matter Air Pollution"</p><p></p><p>Environmental Health Perspectives 2007;115(5):679-683.</p><p>Published online 4 Jan 2007</p><p>PMCID:PMC1867960.</p><p>This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original DOI</p> The blue dot indicates the month when strike began mid-month (July 1967). Red dots indicate full strike months (August 1967–March 1968). Yellow dot indicates first end-of-strike month (April 1968)

United States divided into four regions: four Southwest states (orange), bordering states (green), neighboring states (blue), and eastern states (red)

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Mortality Effects of a Copper Smelter Strike and Reduced Ambient Sulfate Particulate Matter Air Pollution"</p><p></p><p>Environmental Health Perspectives 2007;115(5):679-683.</p><p>Published online 4 Jan 2007</p><p>PMCID:PMC1867960.</p><p>This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original DOI</p

Locations of copper smelters (red circles) relative to major population centers (white boxes)

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Mortality Effects of a Copper Smelter Strike and Reduced Ambient Sulfate Particulate Matter Air Pollution"</p><p></p><p>Environmental Health Perspectives 2007;115(5):679-683.</p><p>Published online 4 Jan 2007</p><p>PMCID:PMC1867960.</p><p>This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original DOI</p> Numbers indicate seasonally adjusted percent changes in sulfate concentrations during the smelter strike

Monthly mortality counts for influenza (squares) and influenza/pneumonia (circles) in the United States plotted over time

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Mortality Effects of a Copper Smelter Strike and Reduced Ambient Sulfate Particulate Matter Air Pollution"</p><p></p><p>Environmental Health Perspectives 2007;115(5):679-683.</p><p>Published online 4 Jan 2007</p><p>PMCID:PMC1867960.</p><p>This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original DOI</p> Blue indicates the month when strike began mid-month (July 1967). Red indicates full strike months (August 1967–March 1968). Yellow indicates first end-of-strike month (April 1968)

Monthly mortality counts for the four Southwest states plotted over monthly mortality counts for bordering states

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Mortality Effects of a Copper Smelter Strike and Reduced Ambient Sulfate Particulate Matter Air Pollution"</p><p></p><p>Environmental Health Perspectives 2007;115(5):679-683.</p><p>Published online 4 Jan 2007</p><p>PMCID:PMC1867960.</p><p>This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original DOI</p> The blue dot indicates the month when strike began mid-month (July 1967). Red dots indicate full strike months (August 1967–March 1968). Yellow dot indicates first end-of-strike month (April 1968). The line is a quadratic regression line fit through the data