Smoking cuts 25 years from life expectancy

luckat

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/9703.php

Effect of Smoking on Life Span

"Action on Smoking and Health" tells us that a 30-year-old smoker can expect to live about 35 more years, whereas a 30-year-old nonsmoker can expect to live 53 more years. The children of a parent or parents who smoke may be at risk from the genetic damage done to the parent before conception (because of their previous smoking), the direct effects to them in the womb, and the passive smoke they are exposed to after they are born.

{"Smokers urged to weigh the 'facts' during the 'Great American Smoke-Out,' Vital Signs, The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Virginia, Nov. 14, 1993, written by June Russell, a member of Smoke-Free Charlottesville}

The amount of life expectancy lost for each pack of cigarettes smoked is 28 minutes, and the years of life expectancy a typical smoker loses is 25 years.
{"Dying to Quit," 1998 book by Janet Brigham}

Every cigarette a man smokes reduces his life by 11 minutes. Each carton of cigarettes thus represents a day and a half of lost life. Every year a man smokes a pack a day, he shortens his life by almost 2 months.
{University of California, Berkeley Wellness Letter, April 2000}

There are some 1.1 billion people who smoke on our planet earth. Just less than one-third of all adults in the world smoke regularly. Tobacco deaths will not only occur in old age but will start when smokers are about age 35. Half of those who die from smoking-related causes will die in middle age, each losing about 25 years of life expectancy. More than 95% of the tobacco consumed is in the form of cigarettes. About half of all smokers who undergo lung cancer take up smoking again.
{"Dying to Quit," a 1998 book by Janet Brigham}

rubadub

There is faulty logic on a lot of statistics. I saw another one recently saying if you drank X glasses of wine per day your chance of cancer increases X%.

From reading these figures it is implying that all people have the exact same lifestyles, the only difference being they smoke/drink/eat junk.

In reality a person who does not smoke is also more likely to exercise. Or in another way of saying it most athletic fit people who exercise and follow good diets are more unlikely to smoke, so figures are skewed to show smoking as the sole reason for the shorter life span, when it is all their "bad lifestyle" choices combined that is the real problem, smoking being just one, and maybe the one that broke the camels back.

There is a difference of 18 years on those figures or 25 in the other quote. If you got 2 identical twins following the exact same lifestyle and diet, except one smoked, I doubt one would live 25 years longer solely because of that.