"Rod" wrote in message
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It is such a shame that causes of death are horribly inaccurate. Even if,
by some miracle, the doctor writes a reasonably accurate cause, by the
time that is translated into statistics, it has been grossly corrupted.

For example, a person my partner is in contact with lost her husband
fairly recently. The immediate cause was heart failure of some sort. But
there is lots of evidence that the heart condition was a direct
consequence of thyroid disease. And who knows what caused that thyroid
disease?

Unlikely, but the certificate just might mention thyroid, however the OPCS
'cause of death' will be heart failure.

This will contribute precisely zero to our understanding of what really
caused his death. Thyroid disease is rarely cited as a cause or even a
contributory factor.

Similar applies to smoking. There are the 'obvious' cases in which lung
cancer (for example) is held to be the direct consequence of smoking. But
there are probably far more cases in which smoking has had consequnces
which contributed to demise.


You are wasting your time talking about smoking related diseases...
it has to be a lie that smoking harms anyone..

no normal person would inflict such problems on others so it must be a lie..
its the only way the addicts can get a clear conscience.

The same as they will manipulate the figures to claim they pay more tax than
it costs to treat them, usually by ignoring all the after care required (its
not treatment so they aren't lying in their opinion) which is paid by social
services and not by the NHS. The NHS will only pay for the treatment of the
illness while the social services have to pay for disability conversions,
sending in care workers, etc. all of which makes the NHS bill look cheap.
The consultants and doctors know which patients are smokers without asking..
they are the ones with bits missing.
I know someone that lost a foot a few weeks ago, he was told it would happen
if he didn't stop smoking a couple of years ago,
Now who is going to pay disability pay for the rest of his life as a result
of a self inflicted injury?
And the stupid idiot still smokes.