Top Definition. ching-a-ling. The object of thrusting your body in a forward and backward motion in a seductively alluring manner in order to attract the opposite sex, or in rare occasions, the same sex. Leah and Jill totally just pulled a ching-a-ling on Ryan in the club!
Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the US, accounting for 1 in every 4 deaths, and affecting significantly more men than women. Contents of this article: 1  Top 10 leading causes of death. 2  Top 10 leading causes of death in more detail.
and number of deaths. The estimates of cause of death were computed by multiply-ing estimates of the cause-attributable fraction of preventable deaths with the total mortality data. Main Outcome Measures Actual causes of death. Results The leading causes of death in 2000 were tobacco (435000 deaths; 18.1% of total US deaths), poor diet and physical inactivity (400000 deaths; 16.6%), and alcohol consumption (85000 deaths; 3.5%). Other actual causes of death were mi-crobial agents (75000), toxic agents (55000), motor vehicle crashes (43000), inci-dents involving firearms (29000), sexual behaviors (20000), and illicit use of drugs (17000). Conclusions These analyses show that smoking remains the leading cause of mor-tality.