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What are the riskiest sports you can do? Well, if you thought of “dangerous sports” like hang-gliding, parachuting, or scuba-diving, you'd be wrong, because they're not, in fact, that dangerous．
According to recent statistics(统计资料), the sport that causes most injuries is rugby, and football is a close second．Despite the popularity of these games, and although we teach school children to play them, they injure more people per 1, 000 than motor-racing, skiing, or scuba-diving．
Of course, people do get hurt in “adventure sports” and the most dangerous is climbing, which kills eight people a year．But it is not always obvious which activities are dangerous．For instance, two people die every year in hang-gliding accidents, but the same number are killed by badminton, whereas six people a year die in fishing accidents! So “exciting” isn't always the same as “dangerous”．
This is even more true when you consider the activities of everyday life．Many more people die due to accidents in the home than from sports of any kind．Did you know that 160 people per year are killed by toothpaste and 3，600 are killed by curtains(although how this happens is unknown)?And if you really want to live dangerously, then have a cigarette, or get in a car, because the three biggest killers in the UK are heart disease, cancer, and car accidents, in that order．So to live longer, stop smoking, sell the car, and start jumping out of aeroplanes!
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