Alcoholic liver disease accounted for nearly two thirds of all alcohol-related deaths in 2010.
But coal plants' pollution was expected to cause nearly 13, 200 deaths in 2010, not to mention 20, 000 heart attacks per year, according to the nonprofit Clean Air Task Force.
The bad news is auto crashes still accounted for 32, 788 deaths in 2010, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which means a vehicle-related fatality occurs an average of once every 16 minutes.
The number of alcohol-related deaths among women aged 30 to 44 has doubled in the last 20 years, although numbers remain relatively small (70 deaths in 2010), according to statistics from the General Register Office for Scotland.
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While the Nepali embassy reported 191 Nepali worker deaths in 2010, and the Indian embassy reported 98 Indian migrant deaths -- ncluding 45 deaths of young, low-income workers due to cardiac arrest, so far in 2012 -- the Qatar Labor Ministry says there have no more than six worker deaths over the last three years.
The good news is that workplace deaths across the board have declined steadily over the last two decades, with 4, 547 deaths recorded in 2010, compared with 6, 217 fatalities posted in 1992.
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The second part of the research involved a review of anonymous case notes from 60 perinatal deaths in 2009 and 2010.
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Mr. Gribbon also points to independent measures suggesting firefighters are getting on scene faster: for example, civilian deaths from fires in 2010 and 2011 that were the two lowest annual totals since the department began counting in 1916.
According to the figures, there were seven deaths in 20mph zones last year, a 17% rise on 2010 while there were 636 deaths in 30mph zones, up 13%.
The team estimates that sugar-sweetened beverages were responsible for upwards of 184, 000 deaths around the world in 2010.
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More than 3, 000 male deaths in England and Wales in 2010 were ruled as suicides or undetermined fatalities, latest figures from the Office of National Statistics show.
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That is down from 5, 377 overall murders during the same period a year ago, but still higher than 4, 661 deaths in the first three months of 2010.
In 2010, there were 13, 140 deaths from brain and other nervous system cancers in the United States.
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Two years ago, Tony Blair backed a target of a 40% reduction in road deaths and serious injuries by 2010.
The report also said there had been three deaths in custody at the prison between November 2010 and the end of October 2011.
According to the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 703 children under the age of 15 died in accidental firearms deaths between 2001 and 2010, the latest year for which the agency's statistics on fatalities are available.
According to its latest estimates, there were about 219 million cases of malaria in 2010 and 660, 000 deaths.
It caught fire April 20, 2010, resulting in the deaths of 11 workers.
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North Yorkshire Police said speeding was responsible for 24% of all road deaths in the county over the three years to 2010.
According to the ONS data, in 2010 there were more helium deaths than cannabis, ecstasy, mephedrone and GHB related deaths put together.
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According to a report from the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), pedestrian deaths rose slightly in the first six months of 2010, the first time that has happened in four years.
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There were just under 33, 000 deaths from motor vehicle accidents in the United States in 2010.
Alcohol related deaths in the UK have increased slightly between 2009 and 2010, according to official figures.
Brenda Martin, director of the bureau, said the number of deaths went down in 2009 and continued to decrease in 2010.
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In 2010 alone, 15, 273 deaths were associated with the drug market.
Oriental Daily News and other Hong Kong newspapers recall how Mr Aquino also appeared to be smiling when responding to a botched rescue of Hong Kong tourists taken hostage by a gunman in Manila in 2010, which led to the deaths of eight Hong Kong citizens.
In 2010, it caused 1.4m deaths, 8.8 million new infections and 450 thousand drug-resistant TB cases.
Deaths from MRSA fell by a quarter, from 485 in 2010 to 364 in 2011.
Indur Goklany, a much-published scholar on the consequences of global warming policies, recently calculated that in 2010 alone, diversion of grain to biofuels (like ethanol) caused nearly 200, 000 excess deaths in the developing world because of increased prices.
The U.S. is also high on the list, coming in at number 3, with 25, 000 deaths for 2010.
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