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Overall life expectancy is also reduced in long term smokers, with estimates ranging from 10 [22] to 17.9 [23] years fewer than nonsmokers. [24] About one half of long term male smokers will die of illness due to smoking. [25] The association of smoking with lung cancer and COPD are among strongest, both in the public perception and etiologically.
Similarly, in the United States, life expectancy for smokers is estimated to be at least 10 years shorter than for nonsmokers, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
6.5 years = 2,374 days and 56,976 hours, or 3,418,560 minutes. 5,772 cigarettes per year for 54 years = 311,688 cigarettes. 3,418,560/311,688=11 minutes per cigarette.
Women lose 22 minutes of their life with each cigarette they smoke while one shortens a man’s life by 17 minutes, experts have estimated.. New predictions by researchers are higher than previous ...
The report concludes that cigarette smoking damages health. It finds that cigarette smoke is the primary cause of chronic bronchitis, and smokers had a 70% increase in age-corrected mortality rate. Smoking is also correlated with emphysema and heart disease, and increases the chance of developing lung cancer by 10 to 20 times.
Some studies from the 1990s found that when people stop smoking, depressive symptoms such as suicidal tendencies or actual depression may result, [188] [207] although a recent international study comparing smokers who had stopped for 3 months with continuing smokers found that stopping smoking did not appear to increase anxiety or depression. [208]
In 2000, data published in The BMJ estimated one cigarette would cost a person 11 minutes of their life.
Smoker melanosis in a patient consuming 2 packs of cigarette per day. Smoking or the use of nicotine-containing drugs is the cause of Smoker's melanosis. [10] [11] Tar-components (benzopyrenes) are also known to stimulate melanocytes to melanin production, and other unknown toxic agents in tobacco may also be the cause.