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#21 Guest_GuyGraham_*

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Posted 13 August 2006 - 05:22 pm

QUOTE(Minty Hippo @ Fri 21st Jul 2006, 10:09 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I read the other day that every year in the UK 10,000 people die because medical drugs are wrongly prescribed. I nearly fell off my chair! Can you imagine if bikers killed 10,000 people every year while just trying to help? (Any medics out there?)



I read it was 36 deaths, 40,000 actual incidents of wrong or incorrect amount drugs given
I think 10K is probably fromt he Sun/Star/Mirror - Headline grabing agiain.

#22 David H

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Posted 13 August 2006 - 11:43 pm

But consider this;-

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Deaths caused by smoking

One in two long-term smokers will die prematurely as a result of smoking – half of these in middle age. The most recent estimates show that around 114,000 people in the UK are killed by smoking every year, accounting for one fifth of all UK deaths. [6] Most die from one of the three main diseases associated with cigarette smoking: lung cancer, chronic obstructive lung disease (bronchitis and emphysema) and coronary heart disease. The table below shows the percentage and numbers of deaths attributable to smoking, based on the latest available detailed breakdown (2002 data).


YES I'm an ex smoker. hm.gif

Edited by David H, 13 August 2006 - 11:44 pm.



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