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Default How healthy is this? You do the math

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:20:30 -0700, Mark Thorson >
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>Table 12. Risks which increase chance of death by 0.000001
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>Smoking 1.4 cigarettes -- Cancer, heart disease
>Drinking ½ litre of wine -- Cirrhosis of the liver


Done that. Done that.

>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


Nope nope nope.


>Travelling 5 minutes by canoe -- Accident
>Travelling 10 miles by bicycle -- Accident


No chance of these.