While smoking-related deaths among men have declined in recent decades, they are still rising among women.

Since the agency's creation, deaths and injuries on the job have steadily declined.

On a population basis, deaths declined slightly, to 15.34 per 100,000.

In the last 20 years, deaths have been declining at a rate of about 1.4% a year.

Police figures show that pedestrian deaths in the city have been declining, to 193 last year from 277 in 1997.

Fortunately, deaths caused by breast cancer have declined over the past 20 years.

A. For the nation as a whole, death from cardiovascular disease has declined since 1963.

And if the division's own statistics are to be believed, alcohol-related deaths declined in just one year, from 1992 to 1993, by 30 percent.

Officials said they were encouraged that the deaths had declined since mid-November.

But deaths declined by about half, he said.