I really don't like

[Junket]

I still don't see the significance of your data.

* Six people drown in U.S. pools every day. Many of these pools are public facilities staffed with certified professional lifeguards.

Centers for Disease Control

* Drowning is the 4th leading cause of accidental death in the United States, claiming 4,000 lives annually. Approximately one-third are children under the age of 14.

American Institute for Preventive Medicine

* Drowning is the second-leading cause of unintentional, injury-related death among children under the age of 15.

National Center for Health Statistics




* A child can drown in the time it takes to answer a phone.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

* 19% of drowning deaths involving children occur in public pools with certified lifeguards present.

Drowning Prevention Foundation

* A swimming pool is 14 times more likely than a motor vehicle to be involved in the death of a child age 4 and under.

Orange County California Fire Authority

* Children under five and adolescents between the ages of 15-24 have the highest drowning rates.

American Academy of Pediatrics

* For every child who drowns, four are hospitalized for near drowning.

American Academy of Pediatrics

* An estimated 5,000 children ages 14 and under are hospitalized due to near-drownings each year; 15 percent die in the hospital and as many as 20 percent suffer severe, permanent neurological disability.

Foundation for Aquatic Injury Prevention

* Of all preschoolers who drown, 70 percent are in the care of one or both parents at the time of the drowning and 75 percent are missing from sight for five minutes or less.

Orange County, CA, Fire Authority

* In 10 states - Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington - drowning surpasses all other causes of death to children age 14 and under.

Orange County, CA, Fire Authority

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One in two sexually active persons will contact an STD/STI by age 25. (So either me or my girlfriend should have an STD by now.)

It is estimated that as many as one in five Americans have genital herpes, a lifelong (but manageable) infection, yet up to 90 percent of those with herpes are unaware they have it.

The estimated total number of people living in the US with a viral STD/STI is over 65 million. [2] Every year, there are at least 19 million new cases of STDs/STIs, some of which are curable.

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More than 100,000 U.S. deaths are caused by excessive alcohol consumption each year. Direct and indirect causes of death include drunk driving, cirrhosis of the liver, falls, cancer, and stroke.

Youth who drink alcohol are 50 times more likely to use cocaine than those who never drink alcohol.

Alcohol kills 6½ times more youth than all other illicit drugs combined.

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In 2005, there were almost 6.5 million automobile accidents in the United States. The cost of these crashes totaled more than $230 billion. Almost 3 million people were injured and more than 45,000 died. On average, another person dies in a car crash every 13 seconds in this country - that's 115 deaths per day.



See?

Look at all these frightening statistics I found.

Makes you want to avoid pools, sex, alcohol, and cars, don't it?

[Gribble]

It makes me want to watch my future children like a hawk whenever they're near a pool. It also makes me want to buckle them up safely and follow the speed limit. And it makes me want to keep guns out of my house or at least keep them unloaded and locked away.

[Mish]

See?

Look at all these frightening statistics I found.

Makes you want to avoid pools, sex, alcohol, and cars, don't it?

Yes it does and when I have a kid I will try to eliminate risks as much as posible. I won't be able to eliminate all of them ofcourse, but definetly the ones in my sphere of influence.

[DoesntMatter]

And it makes me want to keep guns out of my house or at least keep them unloaded and locked away.

That's the only way to keep guns in a house (unless you are a single guy who carries a gun everywhere)

[misombra]

Miso, you're so wrong!! just wrong! Okay? And you know it!!



OMG, I can't believe how wrong you are

it's just not the same.

[DoesntMatter]

Some people should be killed instead of allowed to talk

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