Timothy, with any drug, comes a risk. If the risk outweighs the benefit, as it does with healthy people taking low dose aspirin, then the answer to your question is yes.
In other words, if 10,000 healthy people took the aspirin, you may save 20 deaths, and cause 30.
Incidentally, it has been estimated that the family of drugs, of which aspirin belongs, accounts for anywhere between 2-5000 deaths per year in the UK. A lot less people die in aeroplanes !
Last edited by gingernut; 25th Mar 2004 at 10:07.