what are the number one two and three causes of death?
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Currently the top three causes of worldwide death are heart disease, stroke, respiratory infections.   AIDS is number four right now with 2.8 million deaths, but is set to fill the number 3 slot fairly soon.  By the year 2030, AIDS cases could reach 120 million!  \nJeepers!!\n\nBTW, are you asking about the worldwide top three causes of death, or the U.S. top three causes??
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Use number 1: Ruining your physical appearance by turning your teeth brown, staining your fingers and lips, and making you look older by giving you wrinkles around your mouth from constantly sucking on a cigarette\n\nUse number 2: Causing birth defects when pregnant mothers are unable to beat their addiction thereby condemning a child to a life of misery before it is even born\n\nUse number 3: Killing innocent people around you by forcing them to breathe the toxic chemicals present in the smoke which is exhaled by smokers.\n\nUse number 4: Mass murder to benefit rich corporations by giving them boatloads of money
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1. You put stress on your heart by raising your blood pressure,\n2. You do not know your limits immediately afterwards,\n3. You are worried about death and you are not going to have fun anyway.
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1. not enough sleep\n2. poor diet\n3. stress\n4. vitamin deficiency\n5. allergies\n6. illness
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Smoking KILLS\n\nEvery year hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from diseases caused by smoking.\n\nOne in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age.\n\nTobacco smoke also contributes to a number of  cancers.\n\nThe mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels. \n\nThis can cause heart attacks and stroke. It slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers end up having their limbs \namputated.\n\nTar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer. A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.\n\nChanging to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeper puffs and hold the smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs.\n\nCarbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body and especially your heart  work harder. Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into your lungs.\n\nSmoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. The strain put on your body by smoking often causes years of suffering. Emphysema is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.\n\nLung cancer from smoking  is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke. Men who smoke are ten times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers.\n\nHeart disease and strokes are also more common among smokers than non-smokers. \n\nSmoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels which leads to heart attack. \n\nSmoking causes around one in five deaths from heart disease. \n\nIn younger people, three out of four deaths from heart disease are due to smoking.
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1.   \n organic breakdown or deterioration (e.g., tooth decay, heart failure, senility)\n \n2.\n obstruction (e.g., kidney stones, arterial blockage due to plaque build-up)\n \n3.\n injury (e.g., broken bones, bullet wounds)\n \n4.\n imbalance (e.g., too much or too little of specific hormones and salts in the blood)\n \n5.\n malnutrition (e.g., too much or too little food, not enough proteins, vitamins, or minerals)\n \n6.\n parasites (e.g., bacteria, viruses, amoebas,  worms)
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It's because most deaths related to alcohol are indirect such as drunk driving.  Smoking deaths are direct.
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In 2002 in the United States, there were a total of  2,443,387 deaths by all causes.  Of these, 29,942 involved firearms.  (This would be 1.23%.)  But, 17,108 of these were suicide; aside from these, there were 12,834 firearm deaths (0.53%).\n\nTo put these numbers in perspective, there were 918,628 deaths from major heart disease (37.60%).  There were 45,380 deaths from motor vehicle accidents (1.86%).  There were 14,095 deaths from HIV disease (0.58%).
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Alcohol. Because equals to Families destroyed, Abused Children, accidents,economic bankrupcy, Pregnancies (yes, you read well), Suicides, Women Battered, and self death.\n\nCigarettes, what you see is what you get. Nobody is fooling you "this is good and inofensive. "\nEverybody knows that nicotine kills you. So if you want to get killed, go on.
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high blood pressure and heart dieases and...lets see....dehydration\ntry watermelons!^^
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His actual cause of death was pulmonary fibrosis, a condition that involves scarring of the lungs. Also, he was extremely overweight and had a history of heart problems so I'm sure that never helped either.
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suicide,an unexpected accident, heart attack, mortal disease....
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He died of a heart attack, his weakened coronary condition was both caused and exacerbated by years of (past)drug and alcohol(ab)use.\nViva La Raza!
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Heart Disease and Stroke\nSmoking causes fatty deposits to build up in the blood vessels, leaving them narrow or blocked. This leads to heart disease or stroke. About 40% of deaths due to heart disease before the age of 65 are related to smoking. \n\nCancer\nCigarette smoke contains more than 50 cancer-causing substances. \nSmoking is the most common, preventable cause of lung cancer. Smokers are 22 times more likely to develop lung cancer. 90% of all lung cancer cases in Singaporean males occur among smokers\n\nThe longer one smokes, the greater the risk of developing cancers such as cervical and breast cancer, cancer of the mouth, throat, larynx, pharynx, oesophagus, stomach, pancreas, kidney and bladder. \n\nChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)\nSmoking narrows the airways and destroys the air sacs in the lungs. This makes breathing difficult. Smoking is the most common cause of COPD, which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. COPD is the 6th largest cause of death in Singapore.\n\nBone Loss and Osteoporosis\nOsteoporosis is a disease that causes bones to lose density and become brittle, leading to hip, spine and wrist fractures. \n\nWomen who smoke are 50% more likely to suffer from osteoporosis than non-smokers. \n\nRe-productive and Sexual Health\nSmoking increases the risk of infertility in both men and women.\n\n  Men  \n  • Smokers are 50% more likely to suffer from impotence or erectile dysfunction. \n  • Smoking reduces the volume of ejaculation, lowers sperm count, distorts sperm shape and impairs sperm mobility.  \n\n   Women \n  • Women who smoke may experience early menopause and more menopausal symptoms. \n  • Smoking may lead to decreased egg counts due to destruction of eggs in the ovaries before the eggs reach maturity.  \n\n   • Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm delivery, and low birth weight. The smoke inhaled (either directly from a cigarette or from second-hand smoke) by a pregnant woman goes directly to her baby's lungs. It prevents as much as 25 % of oxygen from reaching the placenta.\n \n\n\nSecond-hand Smoke\nAbout 90% of the smoke from every cigarette ends up in the air as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). \n  ETS \n  • causes lung cancer in people who have never smoked before.  \n  • causes heart attack, especially among the spouses of smokers. ETS also increases the risk of repeated heart attacks if one has suffered from heart attack before. \n\n   • increases the risk of heart disease, lung disease, asthma, allergies, sinus problems, blood vessel disease or worsen the symptoms if one is already suffering from these.
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Without injury or sickness there is nothing left to kill us.  What causes death by old age is a deterioration of the immune system (i.e. your thyroid is largest during puberty and continues to shrink for the rest of one's life).  All forms of death fall under one category or the other, this is as inescapable as death itself.\n\nJust for trivia's sake, I once read a _Ripley's Believe It or Not_ book which mentioned a man who was never diagnosed of any illness until the age of 114.  He ended up dying from it, the first disease he was known to have had.
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Dehydration, poor circulation, a heart condition, hypothermia, the cold.
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1) Hitler died of a self inflicted gun shot wound.\n2) Bose is said to have died in a plane crash over Taiwan while flying to Tokyo although his body was never recovered.\n3) Nehru died of a heart attack.