Gun Control is Completely Useless.

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Canadian cancer death rate down: Lower smoking rates, better screening and treatment account for drop, but much more needs to be done to tackle leading cause of death in Canada
09 May 2012

TORONTO -

The cancer death rate in Canada is going down, resulting in nearly 100,000 lives saved over the last 20 years (1988 to 2007). Despite the drop in the death rate, cancer is still the leading cause of death in Canada. Canadian Cancer Statistics 2012 was released today by the Canadian Cancer Society, in collaboration with the Public Health Agency of Canada and Statistics Canada.

Declines in death rates were seen in all four major cancers: lung, colorectal, breast and prostate. Between 1988 and 2007, overall death rates dropped by 21% in men and 9% in women.

A smaller decline in the women’s death rate is due to the increase in lung cancer deaths among women over the same timeframe. This increase is thought to be due primarily to the fact that women’s smoking rates did not begin to decline until the 1980s, whereas in men, smoking rates began to decline in the 1960s. It takes time before decreases in population-wide smoking prevalence translate into drops in lung cancer incidence and death rates.

Tobacco use, along with unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, excess body weight, alcohol consumption, over-exposure to the sun and exposure to environmental and workplace carcinogens account for a substantial number of cancer diagnoses and deaths each year.

“A large body of evidence has accumulated over the last 30 years showing that about half of cancers can be prevented,” says Gillian Bromfield, Director, Cancer Control Policy, Canadian Cancer Society. “Even greater gains can be made in reducing cancer rates if more is done to help Canadians embrace healthy lifestyles and if governments do more to create policies that encourage people to make these changes. The Society remains committed to informing Canadians about how they can reduce their cancer risk and advocating for governments to pass policies to make healthy choices easy choices.”

Tobacco control and lung cancer

The decline in smoking rates among men is a significant reason for the overall drop in the death rate for men. The lung cancer death rate for men dropped by 30% between 1988 and 2007. Among Canadian males aged 15 and up, smoking has declined from a high of 61% in 1965 to 20% in 2010.

Among women, however, the lung cancer death rate has not dropped yet, although it has now stabilized. This is because smoking among women peaked later than among men and saw substantial declines beginning only in the 1980s.

In 1965, 38% of Canadian women smoked, compared to 14% of Canadian women who smoked in 2010.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women. More Canadians die of lung cancer every year than the combined deaths from breast, colorectal and prostate cancer.

Overall, current smoking rates among Canadians (males and females combined) is 17% (2010), compared to 25% in 1999 and 50% in 1965. Smoking accounts for about 30% of all cancer deaths. It is linked with an increased risk for at least 18 types of cancer, including lung, larynx, oral, stomach, pancreas and kidney.

“While we have made significant progress in reducing smoking, an enormous amount of work remains to be done,” says Rob Cunningham, Senior Policy Analyst for the Canadian Cancer Society. “It is essential that government regulatory and programming initiatives be strengthened so that smoking rates can be driven down as fast as possible.”

For example, tobacco control measures should include:

the fecal occult blood test for colorectal cancer
the Pap test for cervical cancer
screening mammography for breast cancer
The number of new cancer cases continues to rise steadily as the Canadian population grows and ages.
Canadian Cancer Statistics 2012 was prepared and distributed through a collaboration of the Canadian Cancer Society, the Public Health Agency of Canada, Statistics Canada, provincial/territorial cancer registries, as well as university-based and provincial/territorial cancer agency-based cancer researchers.

For more information about Canadian Cancer Statistics 2012, visit the Society’s website at cancer.ca/statistics

The Canadian Cancer Society is a national community-based organization of volunteers whose mission is the eradication of cancer and the enhancement of the quality of life of people living with cancer. When you want to know more about cancer, visit our website Canadian Cancer Society or call our toll-free, bilingual Cancer Information Service at 1 888 939-3333.

For more information, please contact:

Christine Harminc

Senior Manager, Communications & Media Relations

Canadian Cancer Society



Read more: Canadian cancer death rate down: Lower smoking rates, better screening and treatment account for drop, but much more needs to be done to tackle leading cause of death in Canada - Canadian Cancer Society

100,000 lives saved , do they live forever , or is death just delayed ?

 

[Bar Sinister]

Where is the outcry to ban swimming, or registering your pools, mandating water wings

You really don't need to join the ranks of the stupid with posts defending guns. Recreational facilities are intended for peaceful useful purposes. Guns are not. Your post is a complete non-sequitur.

More people get killed on the highway every day. And cars are registered.

Theoretically the drivers are trained as well.

And what is your point? That we should stop training drivers? Brilliant example of twisted logic though.

 

[spaminator]

Man injured after FBI agent’s gun accidentally discharges while dancing in Denver nightclub | Toronto Sun

 

[DaSleeper]

You really don't need to join the ranks of the stupid with posts defending guns. Recreational facilities are intended for peaceful useful purposes. Guns are not. Your post is a complete non-sequitur.
And what is your point? That we should stop training drivers? Brilliant example of twisted logic though.

Again I must ask...
Are you any less dead, if you die by drowning than from a gunshot wound?
You must think so, using recreational facilities use in your argument..
The majority of people use guns for recreational shooting.....
And your last statement is just stupid!

 

[petros]

Gun clubs are recreational facilities.

 

[Twin_Moose]

You really don't need to join the ranks of the stupid with posts defending guns. Recreational facilities are intended for peaceful useful purposes. Guns are not. Your post is a complete non-sequitur.

What is wrong with guns when they are used for the purpose they were made for mainly law enforcement, military, hunting, protection? I agree that users should be screened to legally own a gun to ensure that they are being used for what they were made for. A better effort has to be put into task forces to crack down on gangs, but since FN makes up the majority of the gangs in the West that's political suicide to crack down on properly. A more concerted effort has to be put on schools to report unusual activities displayed by students, and they have to be followed up on. IMO teenagers are the most vulnerable, bullying, public shaming (bullying), social and public rejection (depression), peer pressure(again bullying). These signs will show in 1 of 2 ways either more aggressive on social media or complete regression from friends and family again IMHO

 

[petros]

This new generation has never lived without the Internet and the impact of it is screaming but nobody is listening.

 

[Twin_Moose]

I agree a generation that thinks they should start from the top because it is owed to them, not like past generations that understood you start from the bottom to gain experience and knowledge working your way up.

 

[petros]

Have you ever watched "Canada's Worst Driver"?

 

[Hoid]

What is wrong with guns when they are used for the purpose

whats wrong with pools ?

whats wrong woth guns is that we are starting to see the violence that routinely occurs in the USA occurring here in Canada.

Not in itself a gun problem, but guns are certainly a factor that you have to account for in your solution.

Canada is a law and order society. That is why we don't have nearly the violence problem that America does, and that is why we are going to try in every way possible to keep guns out of the wrong hands.

 

[petros]

Canada is a law and order society. That is why we don't have nearly the violence problem that America does, and that is why we are going to try in every way possible to keep guns out

Hoid

Canadians are worse. More murders with less guns.

peckerhoid

 

[Twin_Moose]

Have you ever watched "Canada's Worst Driver"?

Yes

whats wrong with pools ?

whats wrong woth guns is that we are starting to see the violence that routinely occurs in the USA occurring here in Canada.

Not in itself a gun problem, but guns are certainly a factor that you have to account for in your solution.

Yep people are the problem you have to nip it in the bud before guns, knives, bats, vehicles, etc. become a factor

Canada is a law and order society. That is why we don't have nearly the violence problem that America does, and that is why we are going to try in every way possible to keep guns out of the wrong hands.

If our population exploded X 9 times it's current size would you be able to distinguish between both countries?

 

[JLM]

What is wrong with guns when they are used for the purpose they were made for mainly law enforcement, military, hunting, protection? I agree that users should be screened to legally own a gun to ensure that they are being used for what they were made for. A better effort has to be put into task forces to crack down on gangs, but since FN makes up the majority of the gangs in the West that's political suicide to crack down on properly. A more concerted effort has to be put on schools to report unusual activities displayed by students, and they have to be followed up on. IMO teenagers are the most vulnerable, bullying, public shaming (bullying), social and public rejection (depression), peer pressure(again bullying). These signs will show in 1 of 2 ways either more aggressive on social media or complete regression from friends and family again IMHO

Very few people seem to understand that guns are NOT the CAUSE of the problems.

 

[Colpy]

whats wrong woth guns is that we are starting to see the violence that routinely occurs in the USA occurring here in Canada.

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Murder rate USA: 4.88 per 100,000


Murder rate Canada: 1.68 per 100,000


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

Canada is a law and order society. That is why we don't have nearly the violence problem that America does, and that is why we are going to try in every way possible to keep guns out of the wrong hands.

We exceeded the goal of rational laws to keep guns out of the wrong hands in 1995.

 

[pgs]

Murder rate USA: 4.88 per 100,000


Murder rate Canada: 1.68 per 100,000


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate





We exceeded the goal of rational laws to keep guns out of the wrong hands in 1995.

Maybe but here in LaLa Land we continue to see gun related violence almost daily . The police and politicians both know who are causing the problems .

 

[petros]

Yes

So you've seen the fat chick from Edmonton who screamed "you can't talk to me like that. I'm a millenial"?

Murder rate USA: 4.88 per 100,000


Murder rate Canada: 1.68 per 100,000


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate





We exceeded the goal of rational laws to keep guns out of the wrong hands in 1995.

We have 1/3 the guns per 100,000.

Works out to 5.04 if we had equal the guns using the "anti" crowd math.

 

[Twin_Moose]

So you've seen the fat chick from Edmonton who screamed "you can't talk to me like that. I'm a millenial"?

No I must have missed that one Lol

 

[petros]

You would have been disgusted.

 

[Hoid]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate


https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/14/americas/quebec-shooter-motive/index.html





We exceeded the goal of rational laws to keep guns out of the wrong hands in 1995.

Translation:

Because nothing has changed since 1995 (or indeed since ever) there is no need to change gun laws.

I have decided they are fine with me.

Murder rate USA: 4.88 per 100,000


Murder rate Canada: 1.68 per 100,000


There are more and worse mosque style shootings. There are also more random shoot outs. These will eventually raise murder rates higher - as you seem to be for doing.

There are a lot of gaps I would like to close with the Americans but our murder rate is not one.

 

[petros]

Murder rate USA: 4.88 per 100,000


Murder rate Canada: 1.68 per 100,000

1/3 the guns per 100,000
If Canada had the same amount of guns our murder rate should be 5.08 per 100,000

Fify