>Mathematically, something has to be the leading cause of death ages 25..44. What should it be? I'm a bit late here, but I think we could reasonably hope for t

>Mathematically, something has to be the leading cause of death ages 25..44. What should it be? I'm a bit late here, but I think we could reasonably hope for things that are essentially random, such as car accidents, food poisoning, house fires, chronic birth defects or DIY mishaps. If you look at the actual causes of death[1] You can see that in that age bracket, this is broadly the case. "Unintentional injury" is #1, followed by suicide, followed by homicide, followed by cancer (which includes lung cancer ofc) and then heart disease. (The exact ordering varies a bit depending on source, but accidents->suicide->lung cancer->heart disease is definitely a broad trend) Your point is well made, but when suicide and homicide are above heart disease in the deaths of a nation famed for a national scale chronic weight problem, it's not hard to say that the US could probably do more on the mental health front. I'm of the opinion that the same is true for most of the western world. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10lcid_all_deaths_by_age_group_2010-a.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10lcid_all_deaths_by_...