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Professor Hancock makes an interesting point, which probably also apples to where people die. Perhaps due to the cost profile, many people die in hospital even though they would prefer to die at home if a suitable care package or palliative care was available.I have a broad qu...
Moreover, the younger that people start, the more likely they are to smoke for longer and to die early as a result. Worst of all, someone who starts smoking at 15 is three times more likely to die of cancer than someone who starts in their mid-20s.
You could still have strong receipts through to just before Christmas, but they will die off as we go into the new year if they follow the pattern of mortgage borrowing.
It is estimated that one in 1,000 fishermen a year die as a result of the job—that is more than 100 times the rate of the average job in Scotland—and many more are injured in the course of their work.
However, you are right to suggest that it is a belt-and-braces approach; we could simply have decided to let the royal commission die once all its functions were gone, without any mention that that was the case.
In that regard, most of the consultation responses were more concerned with the older age group and people’s ability to access the forum before they die—or their inability to participate.
Running a railway is not like running a community shop. People die on the railway. Bringing in volunteers who see it as a hobby would not necessarily be a good thing for us.
In the workforce, it does not matter what age you are, because you do not stop learning until you die. Before I bring the discussion to a close, I will bring Ann Henderson back in to summarise some of the points that have been raised this afternoon.
As we know, those who suffer the greatest harm from alcohol are those in lower-income groups and we must weigh in the equation the fact that someone in the lowest-income section of the population is something like five times more likely to die from alcohol-related causes than someone in the top income bracket.