Quotes about Preventable

Tobacco use kills 1200 Americans every day and 450,000 every year. More people die from tobacco-related diseases than from AIDS, alcohol use, drugs, fires, car accidents, murders and suicides combined. It is the nation's leading preventable cause of death.

Cheryl Healton

It is achievable. We want to stop people dying at an early age, prematurely and painfully, from a preventable condition.

Robert Beaglehole

We've had some close calls; we've had a few accidents over time, all of which is preventable if we can get cars slowed down.

Bill Hirsh

Dental disease is completely preventable.

Laura Mcewen

That's my opinion, that his death was preventable. Absolutely. Because he had a pathology which is treated at any place in the world at the moment.

Leo Bokeria

The majority of water losses are preventable. Keeping an eye on things around the house is an easy way to make sure your funds aren't drained by repairs.

Wendy Rose

This case was entirely preventable. The failure here is one of resources.

Mary Lauby

I can tell you that after every one of these we will see carbon monoxide poisonings, and they are 100 percent preventable.

Tom Sinks

It's an annual event, and all those fires are preventable.

Robin Alford

We are pretty complacent about vaccine-preventable diseases, primarily because the vaccines are so effective we rarely see the diseases. It's kind of out-of-sight, out-of-mind.

David Neumann

However, these cases do serve to underscore the importance of making sure your immunizations are up to date for polio and other vaccine-preventable diseases.

Harry Hull

I feel that the goals we gave up this weekend were preventable. But, overall, I think we learned a lot this weekend.

Glenn Crooks

It shows that we care about preventing a disease that is preventable.

Himani Pandya

Colorectal cancer is a lethal disease, but certainly a preventable one if screenings are done at the appropriate time and intervals. Education and screening are the keys to preventing colorectal cancer.

Chad Potteiger

Every year we see needless and preventable injuries from fireworks.

Jonathan Jackson

The major tragedy is that a lot of the deaths were preventable. But we're certainly grateful for the cooperation that we did get.

Jim Pollard

It's simple things that if people stopped and read the labels it would prevent exposure. A fair amount are accidental exposures, things that could have been preventable. But a fair number are suicidal intent.

Tammy Noble

The transmission of HIV/AIDS is preventable, avoidable and inexcusable to not do something to stop it.

Mike Dewine

While impoverished nations may need funding to help their police or their bureaucrats - it will do little if we don't also help desperately poor people feed or educate their children or stop them dying from preventable diseases or dirty drinking water.

Tim Costello

Unfortunately most accidents are preventable. Planes don't fall out of the sky unless something is wrong.

Mary Schiavo

Forklift accidents are preventable; each year, however, powered industrial trucks are involved in thousands of accidents that injure or kill American workers.

Luis Santiago

Our goal is to find out the truth, because periodontal disease is so prevalent, that if indeed it contributes something to cardiovascular disease, it's very important to know that. It's also very preventable.

Dr. Moise Desvarieux

Knowing that this disease is 90-per-cent preventable if caught early and having done nothing about it, Saskatchewan owes an extra duty of care to ensure their patients receive the standard of care without having to pay for it.

Barry Stein

This disaster was one of the most preventable disasters that we've seen in American history.

Greg Stone

Many of the fires that we see in college housing, in fact [the] vast majority of them, are preventable. There are steps that can be taken prior to the fire to ensure that it didn't have the fatal outcome we see.

Ed Comeau