Posted on 03/27/2024 5:51:03 PM PDT by Libloather
the word “almost” always gets me...almost 60k deaths ? scratchim my head ? I’m sure i’m missing something...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/527321/deaths-due-to-choking-in-the-us/
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+many+people+choke+to+death+yearly&t=vivaldi&ia=web
this one says...what ? 58K ? or 17K..still scratchin my head.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35099619/
We identified a total of 1,112,944 deaths related to aspiration pneumonia from 1999 to 2017 or an average of 58,576 per year (age-adjusted mortality rate, 21.85 per 100,000 population; 95% confidence interval (CI) 21.78-21.92).
Aspiration pneumonia was reported as the underlying cause of death in 334,712 deaths or an average of 17,616 deaths per year (30.1% of the total aspiration pneumonia-associated deaths)
Yeppers, with cocaine you’ll lose weight and your wife,job, bank account, family,friends, but you’ll look fabulous.
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