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600,000 attributed to alcohol each year. That number is a bit misleading. Does that include the deaths say due to DUI,, liver damage, poisoning? It ideally sh

600,000 attributed to alcohol each year. That number is a bit misleading. Does that include the deaths say due to DUI,, liver damage, poisoning? It ideally shouldn't as we are discussing carcinogens. Edit: Added additional alcohol related deaths.

andy_ppp 11y ago
There are only about 30000 fatalities from all car driving per year.
- myth_buster 11y ago
  The report indicates that worldwide the total number of road traffic deaths remains unacceptably high at 1.24 million per year. http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_status/2013/en/ http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_st...
  - andy_ppp 11y ago
    In America [0] (I thought the other stats were American ones too), it actually says in [1] 480000 cigarette deaths which disagrees with the previous stats of 1 million, but a million isn't enough for the world surely? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i... [1] http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/tobacco_related_mortality/ http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/healt...
pilsetnieks 11y ago
From the context it seems that it's just about cancer cases but it is very vague and could mean anything.
garrettgrimsley 11y ago
I found numbers for how many cancer deaths in the US are attributable to alcohol [0] and it puts it at 18 200 to 21 300 deaths. For worldwide figures see Table 1 of this study [1] that breaks down alcohol-attributable deaths by category. It lists alcohol-attributable cancer deaths at 487 000 in the year 2004. So it looks like the number isn't misleading, only unclear. Misleading would have been listing the total 2 225 000 alcohol-attributable deaths. [0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673233/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673233/ [1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673609607467 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673609...

andy_ppp 11y ago

There are only about 30000 fatalities from all car driving per year.

myth_buster 11y ago
The report indicates that worldwide the total number of road traffic deaths remains unacceptably high at 1.24 million per year. http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_status/2013/en/ http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_st...
- andy_ppp 11y ago
  In America [0] (I thought the other stats were American ones too), it actually says in [1] 480000 cigarette deaths which disagrees with the previous stats of 1 million, but a million isn't enough for the world surely? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i... [1] http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/tobacco_related_mortality/ http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/healt...

pilsetnieks 11y ago

From the context it seems that it's just about cancer cases but it is very vague and could mean anything.

garrettgrimsley 11y ago

I found numbers for how many cancer deaths in the US are attributable to alcohol [0] and it puts it at 18 200 to 21 300 deaths. For worldwide figures see Table 1 of this study [1] that breaks down alcohol-attributable deaths by category. It lists alcohol-attributable cancer deaths at 487 000 in the year 2004. So it looks like the number isn't misleading, only unclear. Misleading would have been listing the total 2 225 000 alcohol-attributable deaths. [0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673233/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673233/ [1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673609607467 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673609...