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Drunk driving kills between 15 to 10 thousand people each year in the U.S. That's about 3x the lives lost from 911--every single year.
by kevin_morrill 16y ago
Drunk driving kills between 15 to 10 thousand people each year in the U.S. That's about 3x the lives lost from 911--every single year.
- qntm 16y agoWhat's your source?
- JoachimSchipper 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunk_driving_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunk_driving_in_the_United_Sta... says "In the United States the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that 17,941 people died in 2006 in "alcohol-related" collisions..."
- bjelkeman-again 16y agoHow about: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/TSF2004.PDF http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/TSF2004.PDF "Specifically, alcohol-related fatalities declined significantly in 2004, to 16,694, the second consecutive year in which alcohol-related fatalities declined."
- lunchbox 16y agoTobacco use kills 443,000 Americans each year. Source: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/tobacco_related_mortality/ http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/healt... For perspective: http://www.meh.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/meh.ro5415.jpg http://www.meh.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/meh.ro5415.jpg
- acqq 16y agoThat's "1 of every 5 deaths in US due to smoking," I've submitted it now: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1856015 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1856015 Now how is then smoking less harmful than using some other substance? Or is the evaluation skewed somehow?
- Alex3917 16y agoI'm pretty sure that data is about ten years old, but otherwise it's correct. Overall drug use kills about 1 in 3 Americans.
- kevin_morrill 16y agoTobacco at least only kills the person stupid enough to use it. Drunk driving kills thousands of innocent people.
- v21 16y agoStairs kill 12 thousand people per year in the US. That's about 4x the lives lost from 911 -- every single year.