Mark Thorson > wrote:

>Table 12. Risks which increase chance of death by 0.000001
>
>Smoking 1.4 cigarettes -- Cancer, heart disease
>Drinking ½ litre of wine -- Cirrhosis of the liver
>Spending 1 hour in a coal mine -- Black lung disease
>Spending 3 hours in a coal mine -- Accident
>Living 2 days in New York or Boston -- Air pollution
>Travelling 5 minutes by canoe -- Accident
>Travelling 10 miles by bicycle -- Accident
>Travelling 300 miles by car -- Accident
>Flying 1000 miles by jet -- Accident
>Flying 6000 miles by jet -- Cancer caused by
>cosmic radiation

What about the post-nuclear-age manmade environmental radiation? I'm
pretty sure that's stronger than cosmic rays, even at
30,000 feet.

Steve