Thanks, sydneysider.
I was going by a paper that had results over the 1972~1992 period (426,000 deaths) and assumed that the number wasn't going down. Didn't realise it was quite so high. Wish I'd I've know of the later numbers before a shot a letter off to the local rag :)
Paper here:
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/87/12/1944?ijkey=a512ec6af36825a685b8ff6841df3b00df6b329b&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
Robert
