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All life entails risk
Mark
Y. Avelli
05/15/2003
This information is from a risk analysis study made by T. Tengs, et al. on the cost of saving one year of one persons life is given for the benefit of all the local Superfund yahoo's concerned over the environment.
Passing laws to make seat belts mandatory $69
Sickle cell anemia screening for black new borns $240
Mammography for women aged 50 $810
Pneumonia vaccination for people aged over 65 $2000
Giving advice on stopping smoking to people who smoke more than one pack per
day $9,800
Putting men aged 30 on a low cholesterol diet $19,000
Regular leisure time physical activity, such as jogging for men aged 35 $38,000
Making pedestrians and cyclists more visible $73,000
Installing air bags in cars $120,000
Installing arsenic emission control at glass manufacturing plants $1,000,000
Setting radiation standards for nuclear power plants $180,000,000
Installing benzene emission control at rubber tire plants $20,000,000,000
Mary Y. Avelli
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