Cause | Days | Comments |
Being unmarried-male | 3500 |
- Yep, that's right...a married male can expect to live some 10 years longer than an unmarried male. Hmmm... |
Cigarette smoking-male | 2250 |
Heart disease | 2100 |
Being unmarried-female | 1600 |
Being 30% overweight | 1300 |
Being a coal miner | 1100 |
Cancer | 980 |
20% overweight | 900 |
Cigarette smoking-female | 800 |
Stroke | 520 |
Dangerous job-accidents | 300 |
Pipe smoking | 220 |
Increasing food intake 100 cal/day | 210 |
Motor vehicle accidents | 207 | - Keep looking. Nuclear has to be here somewhere. |
Alcohol (U.S. average) | 130 |
Accidents in home | 95 |
Suicide | 95 |
Being murdered (homicide) | 90 |
Legal drug misuse | 90 |
Average job - accidents | 74 |
Drowning | 41 |
Job with radiation exposure | 40 |
Falls | 39 |
Accidents to pedestrians | 37 |
Safest jobs-accidents | 30 |
Fire-burns | 27 |
Generation of energy | 24 |
Illicit drugs (U.S. average) | 18 |
Firearms accidents | 11 |
Natural radiation (BEIR) | 8 |
Medical x rays | 6 |
Coffee | 6 |
Oral contraceptives | 5 |
All catastrophes combined | 3.5 |
Diet drinks | 2 |
Reactor accidents-UCS | 2* | - Finally!!! Way down at the bottom! |
Reactor accidents-Rasmussen Report | 0.02* | - So why is nuclear so scary for so many people? |
Radiation from nuclear industry | 0.02* |