On getting a sense of priorities

[andrewducker]

In the last ten years, smoking has killed 4,000,000 Americans. Traffic has killed 400,000. Terrorism has killed 4,000.

(Can't remember where I stole this from)

Comments

[dougs.livejournal.com]

We need to find something that's killed 40,000.

[andrewducker]

Microsoft Windows?

Hot Dogs?

I wonder what the alcohol statistics are.

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

Alcohol kills fewer people yearly in America than smoking does, or so Thank You For Smoking tells me. Thank You For Smoking also tells me that cheddar cheese is the real killer these days.

[ninox.livejournal.com]

According to World Health Organisation Malaria kills about 40,000