Smoking kills 450,000 a year. Should we outlaw smoking?

SV

OzOne wrote in message
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:56:55 -0500, "Vito"
scribbled thusly:

OzOne wrote
Ummm your webpage above shows a rate something over 6/100,000 so
unless the population of the US has been substantially reduced,
that
amounts to tens of thousands...No?

No, it adds up to under 12,000 - most 'victims' of the WOD.

Interesting the WISCARS shows 10% on a populaton on 290 million.

This might help
http://tinyurl.com/3r8wv

It really is a shock to the system eh.

Sure is. I had no idea there were that many suicides and
justifiable
homocides. 30,000! wow!

So all gun daths that are suicide and justifiable homocide are not
related to guns in the community?
What constitutes a justifiable homocide...Is that where someone
comes
at you with a gun and you shoot em dead?

Of course we have to put that in perspective by remembering that
medical
"misadventures" (doctors don't make mistakes, they have
misadventures) kill
over 100,000/yr.

Well well, maybe we could just ignore ever cause of death that is
less
than what doctors cause.....what level of deaths/100,000 would you
like to set the limit of ignorance at?




Oz1...of the 3 twins.

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