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TABLE 18.6 Estimated Average Loss of Life Expectancy from Various<br />

Risks, Activities, & Diseases<br />

Being an unmarried male<br />

Days Lost<br />

3500<br />

Smoking cigarettes and being male 2250<br />

Heart disease 2100<br />

Being an unmarried female 1600<br />

Being 30% overweight 1300<br />

Being a coal miner1100<br />

Cancer980<br />

Being 20% overweight 900<br />

Having less than an 8th grade education 850<br />

Smoking cigarettes and being female 800<br />

Poverty 700<br />

Stroke 520<br />

Smoking cigars 330<br />

Having a dangerous job 300<br />

Smoking a pipe 220<br />

Increasing your daily food intake 100 calories 210<br />

Driving motor vehicle 207<br />

Pneumonia, influenza 141<br />

Alcohol addiction 130<br />

Accidents in the home 95<br />

Suicide 95<br />

Diabetes 95<br />

Homicide 90<br />

Misusing legal drugs 90<br />

Having an average-risk job 74<br />

Drowning 41<br />

Employment that entails radiation exposure 40<br />

Falls 39<br />

Walking down the street 37<br />

Having a safer-than-average job 30<br />

Fires and burns 27<br />

Generation of energy 24<br />

Using illegal drugs 18<br />

Solid and liquid poisons 17<br />

Suffocation 13<br />

Firearm accidents 11<br />

Natural radiation 8<br />

Poisonous gases 7<br />

Medical X-ray exposure 6<br />

Drinking coffee 6<br />

Oral contraceptives 5<br />

Riding a bicycle 5<br />

Drinking diet sodas 2<br />

Nuclear reactor accidents 2<br />

Radiation from the nuclear industry 0.02<br />

Source: Allman (Oct. 1985).<br />

18.8 COMPARATIVE RISK ANALYSIS 471

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