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Drug dealers, often glamorized by entertainment media, actually have a pretty terrible job, that pays most of them $3 an hour and within 4 years gives them a 25% chance of dying. That shocking mortality rate is actually a much worse chance of dying than if they were already sitting on death row!

This lecture by Freakonomics author Steven Levitt is very informative, rather funny, and quite horrifying:

http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=s_levitt