and the sunday times today gives the real risks of living in UK today:

The real risks are:-

Currently in the UK there are around 250,000 smokingrelated deaths each year (source here)

190,000 Cancer deaths a year

132,000 Heart disease deaths a year

60,000 Stroke deaths a year

4,000 Flu deathe a year on average

3,400 Road accident deaths a year

1,200 MRSA (hospital infection) deaths a year

1,050 Murders a year

155 HIV deaths a year

0 Sars deaths recorded

Interesting about the flu killing more than road accidents.