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new research of the United Kingdom has revealed that life expectancy can be reduced by approximately 22 minutes for women and 17 minutes for men due to a single cigarette.
In the year 2000, data published in The BMJ It is estimated that one cigarette would only cost a person 11 minutes of their life.
From this estimate, daily cigarette consumption in Britain it has fallen significantly for men (15.8 to 11.5) and women (13.6 to 9.5), according to the data. published in december
Commissioned by the UK Department of Health and Social Care, the research used more up-to-date estimates of years lost by smokingincluding because of diseases related to cancerand average cigarette consumption estimated from the BMJ estimate in 2000.
“Most smokers realize that smoking could shorten their lives, but not the impact of each cigarette they smoke,” the researchers wrote in the study.
“Smoking feeds mainly on the relatively healthy middle years rather than shortening the period at the end of life, which is often marked by chronic disease or disability,” he says. “So a 60-year-old smoker will typically have the health profile of a 70-year-old non-smoker.”
In summary, it noted that there were caveats, such as some smokers living long and healthy lives, variation in puffs, types of cigarettes smoked, age at initiation of smoking, and individual tolerance to toxicants.
“Quitting smoking at all ages is beneficial, but the sooner smokers get off this escalator of death, the longer and healthier their lives can be expected to be,” the research states.
