[privacy] Which do you fear more: Terrorism or Hernias?

[Dave Dittrich]

I assume that is over the last five years. A notable missing
item is deaths due to smoking, which is about twice that
of the driving figure (440,000 deaths between 1995 and 1999
per http://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5114a2.htm)

Dude VanWinkle wrote:
> Here is a list of how you could die, and the probability of each:
> 
> from: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71743-0.html?tw=rss.index
> 
> S E V E R E
> Driving off the road: 254,419
> Falling: 146,542
> Accidental poisoning: 140,327
> H I G H
> Dying from work: 59,730
> Walking down the street: 52,000.
> Accidentally drowning: 38,302
> E L E V A T E D
> Killed by the flu: 19,415
> Dying from a hernia: 16,742
> G U A R D E D
> Accidental firing of a gun: 8,536
> Electrocution: 5,171
> L O W
> Being shot by law enforcement: 3,949
> Terrorism: 3147
> Carbon monoxide in products: 1,554

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