Monday, April 29, 2013

You're More Likely to Die from...

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-04-28/calm-down-%E2%80%A6-you-are-much-more-likely-be-killed-boring-mundane-things-terroris

Terrorism pushes our emotional buttons.  And politicians and the media tend to blow the risk of terrorism out of proportion.  But as the figures above show,  terrorism is a veryunlikely cause of death.

– You are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease
than from a terrorist attack

– You are 12,571 times more likely to die from cancer
than from a terrorist attack

— You are 11,000 times more likely to die in an airplane accident
than from a terrorist plot involving an airplane

— You are 1048 times more likely to die from a car accident
than from a terrorist attack

–You are 404 times more likely to die in a fall
than from a terrorist attack

— You are 87 times more likely to drown
than die in a terrorist attack

– You are 13 times more likely to die in a railway accident
than from a terrorist attack

–You are 12 times more likely to die from accidental suffocation in bed
than from a terrorist attack

–You are 9 times more likely to choke to death on your own vomit
than die in a terrorist attack

–You are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer 
than by a terrorist

–You are 8 times more likely to die from accidental electrocution
than from a terrorist attack

– You are 6 times more likely to die from hot weather
than from a terrorist attack

THERE IS LOTS MORE AT THE LINK ABOVE

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