What do white sharks have to do with sunbeds? Nothing at all.

Actually, Mr. Gordon, statistically-speaking, great white sharks are far less dangerous than cigarettes or asbestos. If you were to compare the number of cancer-related deaths attributed to sunbed use, cigarette use, or asbestos exposure to the number of human deaths caused by white sharks, I think you would find the number of deaths caused by white sharks to be negligible in comparison. The U.S. CDC reports the annual number of deaths due to cigarette use at 440,000 a year, in the U.S. alone. Annual asbestos-related deaths in the U.S. were estimated at over 14,000 in 2002 and are expected to continue to rise. In contrast, the annual number of deaths GLOBALLY, due to white shark attacks, is routinely in the single digits. So, Mr. Gordon, cigarettes and asbestos are not “almost as dangerous as the great white shark.” They are far more dangerous.

I wasn’t able to find any stats on lying down in front of a steamroller, so I apologize to the steamrollers of the world, if you’re being unjustly associated with cigarettes, asbestos, and sunbeds.