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Will driving your own car become the socially unacceptable public health risk smoking is today?

  • Written by Andrew Maynard, Director, Risk Innovation Lab, Arizona State University
imagePublic health double whammy?Julien, CC BY-NC-ND

In 2014, over 32,000 people were killed in car crashes in the U.S. In 2012, more than two million Americans visited the emergency room as a result of car crashes. And an estimated 94 percent of the crashes that cause these injuries and fatalities are attributable to human choice or error.

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