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**Chris** · 02-11-2005, 14:47

What I'd like to see is some comparison between the amount of smoking that goes on in the UK and the amount of driving. It seems to me that a bald statistic comparing death from smoking to death from air pollution (important point, the article *did not* put all air pollution down to vehicle emissions) is meaningless.

For example, prior to the Paris crash, Concorde was IIRC the safest commercial airliner in the world. Afterwards, it was one of the most dangerous. This of course was simply because there were not many Concordes and not many flights, so the statistical effect of a single crash was artificially magnified.

Similarly, how do you compare miles driven to fags smoked?

02-11-2005, 14:47	#872
Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,120	Re: smoking and the pub What I'd like to see is some comparison between the amount of smoking that goes on in the UK and the amount of driving. It seems to me that a bald statistic comparing death from smoking to death from air pollution (important point, the article did not put all air pollution down to vehicle emissions) is meaningless. For example, prior to the Paris crash, Concorde was IIRC the safest commercial airliner in the world. Afterwards, it was one of the most dangerous. This of course was simply because there were not many Concordes and not many flights, so the statistical effect of a single crash was artificially magnified. Similarly, how do you compare miles driven to fags smoked?