[trebb]

In other news, every 2 breaths one takes brings one closer to lung cancer and every 2 steps one takes brings one closer to a catastrophic fall.

If everything they have told us would kil us, actually killed us, there would be nobody around to write or read the stories.

[Hotlanta Mike]

[Brookhaven]

A 19% increase! I guess I’ll have to throw out the bacon, or maybe not. The important number is buried in the article:

“13.6 per 100,000 U.S. men develop pancreatic cancer”

So, a 19% increase would be 16.2 per 100,000 men.

All of the following say the same thing:

1) Eating bacon will increase your chances of pancreatic cancer by 19%.

2) Eating bacon will increase your chances of pancreatic cancer from 1.36/10,000 to 1.62/10,000.

3) 38,462 men must stop eating bacon to prevent one case of pancreatic cancer.

It’s all in how you present the numbers. There’s a reason they use percentages—it’s scary, but when you use real numbers it brings things into perspective.