From: neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld)
Subject: Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 07:26:28 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.140821.8896@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> huggins@dss1.austin.ibm.com (Jim Huggins         (8-8305)) writes:
>In article <Brp0CE.CD8@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld) writes:
>>In article <govender.711623420@shannon> govender@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za (Govender) writes:
>>>apparently researchers have claimed that women who are married to smokers
>>>have a 30% higher probability of getting cancer than women who are married
>>>to non- smokers.the facts (quoted in the local press from some british 
>>>medical rag) is that 6 of 100,000 women married to non smokers will get 
>>>cancer as opposed to 8 of 100,000 women married to smokers.
>>>
>>   Putting the odds of a woman contracting cancer somewhere around her
>>odds of being struck by lightning? Haven't we seen figures recently that
>>one in ten women can expect to contract breast cancer? I thought that
>>cancer deaths accounted for 10+% of deaths in the industrialized world.
>
>I think Govender is referring to cancer deaths attributable to second-hand
>smoke.
>
   People exposed to second hand-smoke are more likely to get a cancer
attributable to second-hand smoke? Sounds like a strange study.

BTW, from sci.med:

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From: young@serum.kodak.com [Rich Young (x37176)]
Subject: Re: Leading causes of death

   Here are the top 13 causes "Based on National Center for Health Statistics
   1988 latest official estimates"  (this was a year or so ago)

	1. Heart diseases				767,400
	2. Cancer (malignant neoplasms)			488,240
	3. Strokes (cerebrovascular diseases)		150,300
	4. Accidents and adverse effects (actual 1986 data) 97,500
		Motor Vehicle		47,865
		Falls			11,444
		Poisoning		 5,740
		Fire			 4,835
		Drowning		 4,777
		Suffocation		 4,633
		Other Transportation	 3,060
		Medical mistakes	 2,873
		Environmental factors	 1,501
		Firearms		 1,452

	5. Chronic pulmonary disease			 81,960
	6. Pneumonia and influenza			 77,330
	7. Arterial disease				 46,320
	8. Diabetes					 39,610
	9. Suicide					 30,260
		By firearm		17,853
		By other means		12,407

	10. Liver disease				 26,080
	11. Kidney disease				 23,330
	12. Infectious/parasitic disease (incl. AIDS)	 22,570
	13. Homicide or legal intervention		 22,190
		By firearm		13,092
		By other means		 9,098

   NOTE: These data are at least four years old, and I'd be especially
	   suspicious of the AIDS category as it applies today.

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