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Answers and Survey Results: Hazards to Your Health
Correct Answers are boldfaced
1. Which statement do you believe is more likely to be true?
A. Eating the pesticides on fruits and
vegetables increases the risk of cancer.
B. Eating too few fruits and vegetables
increases the risk of cancer.
(57 percent of respondents chose A; 39 percent chose B)
2. Which statement do you believe is more likely to be true? A. Breathing radon gas at home increases
the risk of lung cancer.
B. Breathing the smog in city air increases
the risk of lung cancer.
(57 percent of respondents chose A; 39 percent chose B)
3. Which kills more people in the United
States each year:
A. bullets from handguns; or
B. traffic crashes?
(35 percent of respondents chose A; 63 percent chose B)
4. The average American's chance of dying
from heart disease in his or her lifetime is
about 2 in 5. Do you believe this estimate is:
A. too large?
B. too small?
C. about correct?
C (18 percent of respondents chose A; 15 percent chose B;
66 percent chose C)
5. The average black male American's chance
of being murdered in his lifetime is about 1
in 7. Do you believe this estimated risk is:
A. too large?
(21 percent of respondents chose A; 24 percent chose B;
53 percent chose C)
B. too small?
C. about correct?
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