| 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* |
