Monday, November 01, 2004

Risk

Cause

Risk per 1 Million people

% Chance of death in a year

1 in every how many per year deaths

Smoking 10 cigarettes a day

5000

0.5

200

Heart disease

3400

0.34

294

Cancer

1600

0.16

625

Car accidents

225

0.0225

4,444

Flu

200

0.02

5,000

Work accidents

150

0.015

6,667

Home accidents

110

0.011

9,091

Murders

93

0.0093

10,753

Leukemia

80

0.008

12,500

Nasty Falls

68

0.0068

14,706

Car vs. pedestrian collisions

42

0.0042

23,810

Drowning

36.5

0.00365

27,397

Fires and burns

29

0.0029

34,483

Lung cancer from passive smoking

20

0.002

50,000

Inhalation and ingestion of objects

15

0.0015

66,667

Poisoning by solids and liquids

11.5

0.00115

86,957

Guns, sporting

10.5

0.00105

95,238

Railroads

9

0.0009

111,111

Eating beef on the bone

8.3

0.00083

120,482

Civil aviation

8

0.0008

125,000

Poisoning by gases

7.35

0.000735

136,054

Pleasure boating

6

0.0006

166,667

Electrocution

5.3

0.00053

188,679

Tornadoes

0.6

0.00006

1,666,667

Floods

0.6

0.00006

1,666,667

Lightning strike

0.5

0.00005

2,000,000

Venomous animals and insects

0.2

0.00002

5,000,000

Aircraft falls from sky

0.1

0.00001

10,000,000

Nuclear power plant leak

0.1

0.00001

10,000,000

Pressure vehicle explodes

0.05

0.000005

20,000,000

Meteorite hit

0.00001

1.0E-09

100,000,000,000

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