From: (Anonymous)	Date: March 26th, 2008 11:39 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Suicide – an American rumour!

Sweden is quite far down in the European suicide table, in 15th place. Yet people abroad still tend to describe us as being more suicide-prone than others. The source of the rumour is a speech given by US president Dwight D Eisenhower in 1960, in which he claimed that “sin, nudity, drunkenness and suicide” in Sweden were due to welfare policy excess. People soon forgot the link to welfare policy, but Ike’s suicide label spread round the world.

Source Åke Daun, Professor of European Ethnology: http://www.sweden.se/templates/cs/Article____12355.aspx