PRINCIPLES OF TOXICOLOGY - Biology East Borneo

18.8 COMPARATIVE RISK ANALYSIS 471TABLE 18.6 Estimated Average Loss of Life Expectancy from VariousRisks, Activities, & DiseasesDays LostBeing an unmarried male 3500Smoking cigarettes and being male 2250Heart disease 2100Being an unmarried female 1600Being 30% overweight 1300Being a coal miner1100Cancer980Being 20% overweight 900Having less than an 8th grade education 850Smoking cigarettes and being female 800Poverty 700Stroke 520Smoking cigars 330Having a dangerous job 300Smoking a pipe 220Increasing your daily food intake 100 calories 210Driving motor vehicle 207Pneumonia, influenza 141Alcohol addiction 130Accidents in the home 95Suicide 95Diabetes 95Homicide 90Misusing legal drugs 90Having an average-risk job 74Drowning 41Employment that entails radiation exposure 40Falls 39Walking down the street 37Having a safer-than-average job 30Fires and burns 27Generation of energy 24Using illegal drugs 18Solid and liquid poisons 17Suffocation 13Firearm accidents 11Natural radiation 8Poisonous gases 7Medical X-ray exposure 6Drinking coffee 6Oral contraceptives 5Riding a bicycle 5Drinking diet sodas 2Nuclear reactor accidents 2Radiation from the nuclear industry 0.02Source: Allman (Oct. 1985).