For those who want to make quitting smoking a part of their New Year’s resolutions, here is some further inspiration. According to research released this week, smoking cigarettes will reduce your life expectancy by over thirty minutes. According to more current statistics, smoking one cigarette can cut a person’s life expectancy by around twenty minutes. In addition to increasing the risk of serious health issues including emphysema, heart disease, and lung and oral cancers, smoking can harm almost every organ. On average, a cigarette costs a person around eleven minutes of life. studies that compared male smokers’ average age at death to that of non-smokers. This time, data from female smokers in the United Kingdom could also be analyzed by the UCL researchers.
In comparison to a non-smoker, the researchers calculated that those who never quit smoking lost between 10 and 11 years of life expectancy, which was more than the earlier estimate of 6.5 years. Additionally, they calculated that smoking cigarettes costs an average of 20 minutes of life—17 minutes for males and 22 minutes for women. The researchers point out that rather than occurring at the end of a person’s life, the majority of these missed minutes occur during their middle and healthy years. In other words, smokers probably go through the same stages of aging-related health problems, but they do it sooner. The researchers pointed out, for instance, that a lifetime smoker who is 60 years old should have the same level of health as a nonsmoker who is 70 years old.
