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"The use of alcohol causes approximately 2.5 million deaths a year, and young people were especially vulnerable to its harms, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday [February 11, 2011] in a report profiling 193 countries on alcohol controls."
Alcohol Claims 2.5 Million Lives a Year According to a World Health Organization Report
Seeded on Fri Feb 11, 2011 8:41 PM EST
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This report seems to indicate that much more needs to be done to reduce alcohol abuse.
Below is a link to a webpage on the WHO website that contains an article and press release about this report. That WHO webpage also includes a link to the actual WHO report.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2011/alcohol_20110211/en/index.html
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#1 - Fri Feb 11, 2011 8:47 PM EST2.5 million out of 6 billion is .04% of the world population. What to do? Nothing more than we are.
#2 - Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:17 PM ESTRainDaze, I guess that's one way of looking at it.
Another approach would be to state that most people do not die each year (perhaps the average life expectancy is 70 years?).
But the article indicates that of those who do die, about 4% (1 out of every 25 deaths) die in a way related to alcohol consumption.
Thanks for your input, RainDaze!
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First, one must read this article:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/8269/2/
Then one must weight the factors in how the data was obtained. WHO did no studies, rather they compile the results of various studies and weed through the data to find what they are looking for. This inherently results in a final report that is out of context from the original and does not determine whether the original methods were reliable or whether the study has been put into doubt by other research.
Such as this:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100823162318.htm
It is important to note that ductal cancer is much more common than lobular cancer accounting for about 70 percent of all breast cancers whereas lobular cancer accounts for only about 10-15 percent of cases.
Additionally, I would like to know what the other 24 people died of (as in 1 of 25).
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