In the USA, about 438,000 people die from smoking-related illnesses per year. Overall, cigarette smoking accounts for about 30% of cancer deaths. Of every 5 deaths in the USA, 1 is caused from...
There are 6,790,062,216 people in the world. The death rate in July 2009 is 8.2 per 1000. Doing the math, there is about 56,000,000 deaths a year worldwide.
Worldwide, there are several hundred deaths due to participation in what are regarded in extreme sports.. (There are tens of thousands more injuries, as well.)