It depends on the purpose of the comparison. I think you are correct that numbers are trying to be used to scare people.cb1000rider wrote:I think it a valid numerical comparison. Course, everyone is afraid of cancer and we assume that there are a lot of deaths, so it's also probably designed to be a bit "scary".WildBill wrote:What do people always try to relate things that aren't related or compare things that aren't comparable?
Regardless, unlike cancer, lots of those deaths could be avoided.
Cancer is a disease, while car accidents and gunshot wounds are not. Human behavior that avoids contracting cancer are totally different than the behavior that avoids get in a car accident or getting shot.
