According to the report, called "Curbing the Epidemic," the only two causes of death that are huge and growing worldwide are AIDS and tobacco-related illnesses.
Estrogen can provoke cancer in the breast, but destroys prostate-cancer cells; vinyl chloride is exquisitely carcinogenic to the liver but not to the skin; chlorine and nitrogen mustard are both poison gases, but only one causes leukemia.
To ensure a sufficient sample size, we considered only two causes of deaths: cardiorespiratory causes (ICD-9 codes 460 519 and codes 390 459) and all-cause deaths except those from accidental causes (ICD-9 codes < 800).
Furthermore, only six causes account for three-quarters of childhood deaths globally: pneumonia (19%), diarrhoea (18%), malaria (8%), neonatal pneumonia or sepsis (10%), preterm delivery (10%) and asphyxia at birth (8%).
And asbestos is only one cause of such litigation.
Ideological change is both the most common cause of conflict and the root of most wars, but there is rarely only one cause of dispute.
By the 1980s, these economists had essentially overthrown the Keynesians by asserting that inflation had one and only one cause – excessive money growth by the Fed.
Now Pakistan has to build about 800km.That it has to pass through the insurgency-ridden province of Balochistan is only one cause for doubting its completion.
Despite a strained power grid that has gone lacking in basic upkeep for years, he assured Venezuelans that there could be only one cause: sabotage.
The increased importance assigned to ethnic affiliation was, however, only one cause of decline; equally or even more important were economic and other factors.
