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    Stigmurder
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    I was reading this earlier and I thought you guys might find it interesting and surprising. read number 2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Journal of the American Medical Association, Jan. 19, 2005, Vol. 293, No. 3, p. 298, reported on the leading causes of death in the United States: 1. Tobacco (435,000 deaths; 18.1% of total US deaths) 2. Poor diet and physical inactivity (400,000 deaths; 16.6%) 3. Alcohol consumption (85,000 deaths; 3.5%) (Note: 16,653 deaths from alcohol-related vehicle crashes are included in both Alcohol consumption above and Motor vehicle crashes below.) 4. Microbial agents (75,000) 5. Toxic agents (55,000) 6. Motor vehicle crashes (43,000)(see Note above) 7. Incidents involving firearms (29,000) 8. Sexual behaviors (STDs, hepatitis B and C, and cervical cancer) (20,000) 9. Illicit use of drugs (17,000) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this should give you enough reason to get up and do something, your life depends on it.

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      I was reading this earlier and I thought you guys might find it interesting and surprising. read number 2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Journal of the American Medical Association, Jan. 19, 2005, Vol. 293, No. 3, p. 298, reported on the leading causes of death in the United States: 1. Tobacco (435,000 deaths; 18.1% of total US deaths) 2. Poor diet and physical inactivity (400,000 deaths; 16.6%) 3. Alcohol consumption (85,000 deaths; 3.5%) (Note: 16,653 deaths from alcohol-related vehicle crashes are included in both Alcohol consumption above and Motor vehicle crashes below.) 4. Microbial agents (75,000) 5. Toxic agents (55,000) 6. Motor vehicle crashes (43,000)(see Note above) 7. Incidents involving firearms (29,000) 8. Sexual behaviors (STDs, hepatitis B and C, and cervical cancer) (20,000) 9. Illicit use of drugs (17,000) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this should give you enough reason to get up and do something, your life depends on it.

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      Stigmurder wrote:

      this should give you enough reason to get up and do something, your life depends on it.

      The outcome is the same, regardless of lifestyle. ;P


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        Stigmurder wrote:

        this should give you enough reason to get up and do something, your life depends on it.

        The outcome is the same, regardless of lifestyle. ;P


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        Stigmurder
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        true, but what if the next bill gates chokes on a chicken wing lying in bed???

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          true, but what if the next bill gates chokes on a chicken wing lying in bed???

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          Stigmurder wrote:

          but what if the next bill gates chokes on a chicken wing lying in bed???

          Then the world would be saved a lot of trouble?

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            true, but what if the next bill gates chokes on a chicken wing lying in bed???

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            I guess we'd find out just how "ready for the desktop" Linux really is ;)


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              Stigmurder wrote:

              but what if the next bill gates chokes on a chicken wing lying in bed???

              Then the world would be saved a lot of trouble?

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              Jorgen Sigvardsson
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              GNU Communist!

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                I was reading this earlier and I thought you guys might find it interesting and surprising. read number 2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Journal of the American Medical Association, Jan. 19, 2005, Vol. 293, No. 3, p. 298, reported on the leading causes of death in the United States: 1. Tobacco (435,000 deaths; 18.1% of total US deaths) 2. Poor diet and physical inactivity (400,000 deaths; 16.6%) 3. Alcohol consumption (85,000 deaths; 3.5%) (Note: 16,653 deaths from alcohol-related vehicle crashes are included in both Alcohol consumption above and Motor vehicle crashes below.) 4. Microbial agents (75,000) 5. Toxic agents (55,000) 6. Motor vehicle crashes (43,000)(see Note above) 7. Incidents involving firearms (29,000) 8. Sexual behaviors (STDs, hepatitis B and C, and cervical cancer) (20,000) 9. Illicit use of drugs (17,000) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this should give you enough reason to get up and do something, your life depends on it.

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                Chris Maunder
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                Do they have stats on: - Falling down open man-holes - attacks by small animals such as squirrels - Choking on pop-corn inhaled while watching a movie and laughing - Falling anvils If they don't then I'm not sure I would regard their report as exhaustive or conclusive.

                cheers, Chris Maunder

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                  Do they have stats on: - Falling down open man-holes - attacks by small animals such as squirrels - Choking on pop-corn inhaled while watching a movie and laughing - Falling anvils If they don't then I'm not sure I would regard their report as exhaustive or conclusive.

                  cheers, Chris Maunder

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                  Stigmurder
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                  no but i do believe they have stats on marijuana related deaths - 0, but thats a whole nother subject.

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                    Do they have stats on: - Falling down open man-holes - attacks by small animals such as squirrels - Choking on pop-corn inhaled while watching a movie and laughing - Falling anvils If they don't then I'm not sure I would regard their report as exhaustive or conclusive.

                    cheers, Chris Maunder

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                    Paul Conrad
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                    Chris Maunder wrote:

                    attacks by small animals such as squirrels

                    :laugh::laugh::laugh: Especially during the autumn in my area, squirrels are always dropping acorns out of the trees then.

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                      I was reading this earlier and I thought you guys might find it interesting and surprising. read number 2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Journal of the American Medical Association, Jan. 19, 2005, Vol. 293, No. 3, p. 298, reported on the leading causes of death in the United States: 1. Tobacco (435,000 deaths; 18.1% of total US deaths) 2. Poor diet and physical inactivity (400,000 deaths; 16.6%) 3. Alcohol consumption (85,000 deaths; 3.5%) (Note: 16,653 deaths from alcohol-related vehicle crashes are included in both Alcohol consumption above and Motor vehicle crashes below.) 4. Microbial agents (75,000) 5. Toxic agents (55,000) 6. Motor vehicle crashes (43,000)(see Note above) 7. Incidents involving firearms (29,000) 8. Sexual behaviors (STDs, hepatitis B and C, and cervical cancer) (20,000) 9. Illicit use of drugs (17,000) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this should give you enough reason to get up and do something, your life depends on it.

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                      Is there a link or anything that you have?

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                        no but i do believe they have stats on marijuana related deaths - 0, but thats a whole nother subject.

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                        How about falling down open manholes while arguing with stoned squirrels? That one bites.

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                          How about falling down open manholes while arguing with stoned squirrels? That one bites.

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                          Paul Conrad
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                          Shog9 wrote:

                          How about falling down open manholes while arguing with stoned squirrels?

                          :laugh::laugh::laugh:

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                            Stigmurder wrote:

                            this should give you enough reason to get up and do something, your life depends on it.

                            The outcome is the same, regardless of lifestyle. ;P


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                            Brady Kelly
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                            What do you mean by that?

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                              Is there a link or anything that you have?

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                              Stigmurder
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                              yes this is where i got my info. http://www.stopaddiction.com/narconon\_alcohol\_deaths.html or you can get it straight from the source at who.int

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                                What do you mean by that?

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                                Chris Losinger
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                                death is certain

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                                  death is certain

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                                  Brady Kelly
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                                  It certainly is, but the survey question was not do we die or not, it was how we die, and there are lots of differences between the ways we die, many of them influenced, to a degree, by lifestyle.

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                                    I was reading this earlier and I thought you guys might find it interesting and surprising. read number 2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Journal of the American Medical Association, Jan. 19, 2005, Vol. 293, No. 3, p. 298, reported on the leading causes of death in the United States: 1. Tobacco (435,000 deaths; 18.1% of total US deaths) 2. Poor diet and physical inactivity (400,000 deaths; 16.6%) 3. Alcohol consumption (85,000 deaths; 3.5%) (Note: 16,653 deaths from alcohol-related vehicle crashes are included in both Alcohol consumption above and Motor vehicle crashes below.) 4. Microbial agents (75,000) 5. Toxic agents (55,000) 6. Motor vehicle crashes (43,000)(see Note above) 7. Incidents involving firearms (29,000) 8. Sexual behaviors (STDs, hepatitis B and C, and cervical cancer) (20,000) 9. Illicit use of drugs (17,000) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this should give you enough reason to get up and do something, your life depends on it.

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                                    Russell Morris
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                                    Where is the "Because you're old" category?

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                                      Do they have stats on: - Falling down open man-holes - attacks by small animals such as squirrels - Choking on pop-corn inhaled while watching a movie and laughing - Falling anvils If they don't then I'm not sure I would regard their report as exhaustive or conclusive.

                                      cheers, Chris Maunder

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                                      Muhadeeb99
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                                      How about falling safes or falling pianos B/W movie comedy sketches

                                      All things being equal, tommorrow will never equal today

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                                        yes this is where i got my info. http://www.stopaddiction.com/narconon\_alcohol\_deaths.html or you can get it straight from the source at who.int

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                                        szukuro
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                                        I find it to be rather suspicious that almost all of the causes listed have to do with abuse of certain substances (alcohol, drugs). Just look at the domain name and the addiction rehabilitation ads and you notice what I'm trying to say. After a bit of googling I found this: http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus10.html[^]. Causes listed here are seem more acurate (I mean, we know that smoking kills, but #1 leading cause of death ? - come on now). Also this lists heart disases as #1 reason, which is more likely. This is the leading cause of death in my country too (together with other cardiovascular diseases). P.S.: 72,3% of all statistics are made up on the spot :)

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                                          Do they have stats on: - Falling down open man-holes - attacks by small animals such as squirrels - Choking on pop-corn inhaled while watching a movie and laughing - Falling anvils If they don't then I'm not sure I would regard their report as exhaustive or conclusive.

                                          cheers, Chris Maunder

                                          CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                                          Ed Gadziemski
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                                          Chris Maunder wrote:

                                          Do they have stats on: ...

                                          Those causes of death would fall under these ICD-10 codes: 1. W17 (Other fall from one level to another) 2. W55 (Bitten or struck by other mammals) 3. W79 (Inhalation and ingestion of food causing obstruction of respiratory tract) 4. W20 (Struck by thrown, projected or falling object) CDC aggregates data from all reported deaths in the United States. The original death certificates contain the specific details such as whether the falling object was an anvil or a piano and if the mammal was a squirrel or a ferret. Fatal bites from rats and dogs are most common. They are tracked by their own codes. You can search 1999 - 2004 data online at: Centers for Disease Control Compressed Mortality Database[^]

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