Given the benefits of work and given the relatively low marginal increase in risk, it might well be reasonable for an individual to choose to work that job. However, imagine that there are 100,000 workers industrywide facing the same decision. In this situation, we can be statistically certain of an additional 13 cases of lung cancer each year. Are these 13 cancers a prince worth paying for the freedom of 100,000 individuals to choose? They may be, but the point is that this question would never be asked if public policy relied exclusively on the individual perspective.