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In case you feel like pulling a Drew Peterson, poisoning is the new, hip way to kill someone. At least according to a University of Georgia study, which found that while poisonings are rare, they're on the rise.

In 2000, poisoning accounted for .20 mortality cases per million people. Now the rate is at .30. Now before you go all swine-flu crazy on us, poisonings account for less than 1 percent of all homicides. Still, we thought poisonings (the premeditated kind) only occurred in "CSI" episodes and Disney movies.

Children less than 1 year old are approximately nine times more likely to be victims than the general population. (We'd worry more about being roofied by Creepy McCreep at the other end of the bar.)