Random Facts

As we all know, you can find facts to prove any argument.
I could probably find an official fact somewhere on
the internet to disprove or prove any statement.

Here's a few that concern me -
(I've no doubt I could find alternatives to disprove
all of them, but I choose to believe these) .

Poverty / War
1) 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and
malnutrition, and hunger-related diseases.
2) 30,000 people die every day from poverty.
3) Some 1000 people still die every day as a result of the
conflict in the Congo.

Work
1) One worker dies every 15 seconds worldwide,
6,000 workers die every day.
2) Work kills more people than wars
3) Each year, more than two million women and men die as a
result of work-related accidents and diseases.

Roads / Cars
1) Road crashes are now the leading cause of death
worldwide for 10-25 year olds. 1000 young people
aged under 25 die on the world's roads every day.
2) Each year road traffic crashes kill 1.2 million people
3) Road crashes are the second leading cause of death
for young men after HIV/AIDS.

Smoking
1) 617 deaths a year are related to exposure to workplace smoke.
2) Smoking kills around 114,000 people in the UK each year.
Of these deaths, about 42,800 are from smoking-related cancers,
30,600 from cardiovascular disease and 29,100 die from
emphysema and other chronic lung diseases.