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Why are the actual leading causes of deaths in US not being acknowledged?

These are from 2010, there is 2011 list but the point is that biggest causes are not any we are trying to handle, they instead are being ignored in favor of soapboxing.

Heart disease: 597,689

Cancer: 574,743

Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 138,080

Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 129,476

Accidents (unintentional injuries): 120,859

Alzheimer's disease: 83,494

Diabetes: 69,071

Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,476

Influenza and Pneumonia: 50,097

Intentional self-harm (suicide): 38,364

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  • 8 years ago

    I wonder why you think that the leading causes of death are not being acknowledged. Do you have any idea how much is spent, both by government and private industry, on all of those things? No, actually, we don't, since there isn't any database of what private industry spends.

  • 8 years ago

    It needs to be politicized for people to pay attention to it, in most cases. Sad but true.

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