Watch what they say???

These tables are generated from data provided by
the National Vital Statistics Report

Real Time Estimate Top 7 Causes of Death Since 1 Jan, 2013
Cause	Annually	To Date
Tobacco:	529,000	1,839,911
Medical Errors:	195,000	678,228
Alcohol Abuse:	107,400	373,547
Vehicle Accidents:	42,000	146,080
Suicide:	29,350	102,082
Drug Abuse:	25,500	88,691
Firearm Homicide:	10,828	37,661

Mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) are a fundamental source of demographic, geographic, and cause-of-death information.
This is one of the few sources of health-related data that are comparable for small geographic areas and are available for a long time period in the United States.
The data are also used to present the characteristics of those dying in the United States, to determine life expectancy, and to compare mortality trends with other countries.

In these tables I have summarized and formatted the raw data to increase comprehension and fitness of purpose.

2002 Leading Causes of Death in the United States
2007 Deaths from All Causes - Grouped By Age
2007 Deaths from Accidents - Grouped By Age
2007 Deaths by Violence - Grouped By Age

Home   2002 Causes of Death2007 Deaths from All Causes2007 Deaths from Accidents2007 Deaths by Violence

The United States has also seen a spike in deaths related to fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times more so than morphine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Fentanyl has been named as the drug that killed pop singer Prince this year.
At least 207,000 deaths globally were drug-related in 2014, with heroin use and overdose-related deaths increasing sharply also over the last two years, according to the Vienna-based U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

"Heroin continues to be the drug that kills the most people and this resurgence must be addressed urgently," Yury Fedotov, the executive director of the UNODC, said.

**  Gee  with all these drug deaths - where is the outrage from BO and Congress??
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( 8%) Eight percent of gun owners own 10 or more weapons.

In an online survey of 3,000 people, Harvard’s Injury Control Research Center found that 22 percent of Americans professed to own guns — and 25 percent of those gun owners own five or more guns.

 The Center’s director, Dr. David Hemenway, told The Trace in October that guns in fewer hands might actually lower rates of gun suicide and accidental shootings. But the fact that these gun owners feel they must compile an arsenal raises another set of questions.

** Notice that most of the questions are about control and not freedom!

“Who are these people and why do they have so, so many guns?”
 Hemenway asked.
“And are they really responsible?”

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Revised December 2015

The U.S. government does not track death rates for every drug. However, the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does collect information on many of the more commonly used drugs. The CDC also has a searchable database, called CDC Wonder.

National Overdose Deaths—Number of Deaths from Prescription Drugs. The figure above is a bar chart showing the total number of U.S. overdose deaths involving prescription drugs from 2001 to 2014. The chart is overlayed by a line graph showing the number of deaths by females and males. From 2001 to 2014 there was a 2.8-fold increase in the total number of deaths.

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Who is an open question - which when ask in this fashion directs one to think negatively  about the subject!  Then compounded with a further question of doubt with a negative projection! 

** This is known as expending the Argument and begging the Question...
 Neither are actually factual or valid...

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• Number of deaths: 2,596,993
• Death rate: 821.5 deaths per 100,000 population
• Life expectancy: 78.8 years
• Infant Mortality rate: 5.96 deaths per 1,000 live births

Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2013, tables 1, 7, 10, 20[PDF - 1.5 MB]

Number of deaths for leading causes of death:

• Heart disease: 614,348
• Cancer: 591,699
• Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 147,101
• Accidents (unintentional injuries): 136,053
• Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 133,103
• Alzheimer's disease: 93,541
• Diabetes: 76,488
• Influenza and Pneumonia: 55,227
• Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis: 48,146
• Intentional self-harm (suicide): 42,773

Source: Health, United States, 2015, Table 19 (Data are for 2014)

*** Notice the yellow slice of the Total Deaths in the US which is where such as Automobiles, Airplanes, and gun deaths are found - not the major players...

  It looks more like it going to the Hospital, or getting an Abortion and disease are more dangerous than driving drunk, flying, industrial accidents or guns...   

But who is counting??  Watch what they say???       HUH???