America`s Real threat !

**EdLancer** · 07-26-2007, 10:31 PM

The REAL Threat to Americans. What really kills Americans.

**todd@bsaw** · 07-27-2007, 01:15 AM

Does it scare anyone else that `Medical Mistakes` is so high up there?

:nervous2:

**imported_truzoom** · 07-27-2007, 01:35 AM

Seeing this makes me feel glad I ate Subway tonight...

**Way2SSlow** · 07-27-2007, 07:12 AM

Second Hand Smoke?! I believe it. I just cant understand why anyone would want to smoke. If second hand smoke is that bad for people, then why would anyone want the first hand smoke?

**EdLancer** · 07-27-2007, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by Way2SSlow

Second Hand Smoke?! I believe it. I just cant understand why anyone would want to smoke. If second hand smoke is that bad for people, then why would anyone want the first hand smoke?

The pleasures of life are all bad for you, so its a trade off of a couple of years off your life for that niched pleasure !

**sQuashed** · 07-27-2007, 12:25 PM

I could be a threat too. I was a "Parent Mistake"..

**Corey Bit Spank** · 07-27-2007, 12:48 PM

Guess we`ll just have to declare wars on each of these....

**skitelluride531** · 07-27-2007, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by Corey Bit Spank

Guess we`ll just have to declare wars on each of these....

**Corey Bit Spank** · 07-27-2007, 01:39 PM

What`s wrong? Wilford Brimley can stay behind and lead the Diabetes troop ship in prayer.

**TortoiseAWD** · 07-27-2007, 02:49 PM

Originally Posted by Corey Bit Spank

Guess we`ll just have to declare wars on each of these....

Heh. Yeah, the never ending "War on <insert-noun-here>" . . . rarely does it do any good, but politicians can point and say, "See?! We`re doing something about the problem!"

Unfortunately, the "something" usually requires metric-arseloads of cash, and nibbles away at civil liberties.

Tort

Member of the GOMDLAMYOB Party

(Get Off My Damn Lawn and Mind Your Own Business)

**Beason** · 07-27-2007, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by todd@bsaw

Does it scare anyone else that `Medical Mistakes` is so high up there?

:nervous2:

not really. There are about 7,600 hospitals in the US, thats about 32 a year per hostpital. Considering how many patients go through each year its a small percentage.

**todd@bsaw** · 07-27-2007, 07:39 PM

Good point. But just think how many jobs there are out there that have the consequence "someone dies" if you make a mistake.

**Glowin97x** · 07-28-2007, 12:08 PM

mmmmmmmmm this thread makes me want a big mac.... I wish I was kidding

**Spilchy** · 07-30-2007, 06:59 AM

I am offended by the title to the graph as it seems to belittle a very real threat that has plagued us even before 9/11. What`s completely stupid about this inane comparison is that on 9/11 people did not choose (therefore not preventable) to die by being crushed to death, jumping out of windows, or blown up in a hijacked plane. Therefore there is an inherent flaw in this graph.

People make conscious decisions to commit suicide, eat their way into oblivion (assuming side effects) or smoke.

But to use the deliberate, targeted, systematic murder of civilians who played no part in their death as a means to portray these other, unrelated causes of death is dumb.

Just my $0.02

**velobard** · 07-30-2007, 09:44 AM

Rest assured, there`s plenty of terrorists who are working to figure out ways to make a big spike in their numbers according to this graph. I take issue with the number posted for that, but that`s a subject for another time.