We need better fast food, alcohol, tabacco control.........
 

Actual Causes of Preventable Deaths

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In 2000 well over a third of all deaths in the United States could be attributed to a limited number of largely preventable behaviors and exposures--tobacco use (smoking), poor diet and physical inactivity and alcohol consumption.

Actual Causes of Death
The leading causes of death in 2000 from behavioral causes with the number and percentages of deaths were as follows:

Tobacco accounting for 435,000 deaths or 18.1% of total deaths in the US.

Poor diet and physical inactivity accounting for 365,000 deaths or 15.2% of total deaths in the US.
These are the corrected values from the often cited originally published and later corrected values of 400,000 and 16.6%.

Alcohol consumption accounting for 85,000 deaths or 3.5% of the total deaths in the US.

Microbial agents accounting for 75,000 or 3.1% of the total deaths in the US.

Toxic agents accounting for 55,000 or 2.3% of the total deaths in the US.

Motor vehicle crashes accounting for 43,000 or 1.8% of the total deaths in the US.

Incidents involving firearms accounting for 29,000 or 1.2% of the total deaths in the US.

Sexual behaviors accounting for 20,000 or 0.8% of the total deaths in the US.

Illicit use of drugs accounting for 17,000 or 0.7% of the total deaths in the US.



Call your congressmen :helpme

ya and we all die...what is the avg age now? even with those numbers.

cigarettes don't kill people, people ... err... uhm... fuck it.

smoking kills....