31 Mar 2010, Posted by Cat in News, 1 Comment. Tagged data

for your edification

Two cool bits of info unearthed at work today:

1. Each year in Australia there are approximately 19,000 deaths from the use of tobacco, 2,000 from alcohol and 1,000 for all other illicit drugs combined. Paracetamol kills 400 people per year, and even aspirin causes more deaths than cannabis. In fact, ABS figures do not show cannabis as causing any deaths.

2. The majority of insulin currently used by diabetics in Australia is produced by bacteria engineered to contain a copy of the human insulin gene.