Comments on: Interesting Facts About Alcohol http://stephennewell.com/2008/02/09/interesting-facts-about-alcohol/ The Deaf Jedi's Musings about Deafness, Deaf Ministry, God and Everything Else Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:58:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: More Alcohol Perspective « The Silent Holocron http://stephennewell.com/2008/02/09/interesting-facts-about-alcohol/#comment-9006 Fri, 23 May 2008 18:03:21 +0000 http://stephennewell.wordpress.com/?p=649#comment-9006 [...] when the timestamp arrives. This post was originally intended for back in April, after I posted on Interesting Facts About Alcohol in [...]

]]> By: Stephen Newell http://stephennewell.com/2008/02/09/interesting-facts-about-alcohol/#comment-8988 Sun, 04 May 2008 01:27:46 +0000 http://stephennewell.wordpress.com/?p=649#comment-8988 Steve, your objections are not as relevant to this particular discussion because these are statistics for Americans, not Australians. Furthermore, Mr. Turk actually does concede alcohol-related deaths, and the statistics include alcohol-related deaths, which further undermine your objections.

]]> By: Steve http://stephennewell.com/2008/02/09/interesting-facts-about-alcohol/#comment-8983 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:22:35 +0000 http://stephennewell.wordpress.com/?p=649#comment-8983 I live in a society where according tothe Australian bereau of statistics 1/4 people drink to a dangerous level each week.
Mr. turk’s statistics do not take intpo account those hwo die at an earlier age than necessary through heart attack, cancer and other diseases of which alcohol use is a contributing factor.
In our country Alcohol caused death rates between 1990-97, were consistently higher for males than for females. In 1997, out of 3,290 deaths caused by risky levels of drinking, 70% were male and due mainly to liver cirrhosis, road injuries, stroke, suicide or alcohol dependence and 30% were female, due mainly to stroke and alcoholic liver cirrhosis.
In 1997, older people (aged 40-70 years) were more likely to die from chronic conditions, related to long term alcohol misuse, and younger people (aged 15-29 years) from acute conditions related to bouts of intoxication.
(quoted directly from http://www.alcohol.gov.au/)

It is these older people’s deaths that are not taken into account within Mr. Turk’s statistics.
A local funeral director told me recently of deaths under the age of 70 years of qge, 50% have as the cause of death on the death certificate, “alcohol related causes”.
In other words, the recognised cause of early disease through chronic conditions is alcohol related.
Steve

]]> By: Southern Baptists, Calvinism, Church Discipline, Alcohol & Numa Numa | Said at Southern Seminary http://stephennewell.com/2008/02/09/interesting-facts-about-alcohol/#comment-8873 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:11:16 +0000 http://stephennewell.wordpress.com/?p=649#comment-8873 [...] father Stephen Newell has posted some interesting facts about Alcohol to his [...]

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