A new study reveals that smoking shortens lifespan by an average of 20 minutes per cigarette, urging smokers to quit for improved health and longevity.
Smokers have been urged to quit as they enter the new year after new analysis reveals the time lost by each cigarette smoked. The new stats reveal that men lose approximately 17 minutes of life with every cigarette smoked, while a woman's life is cut short by 22 minutes for each cigarette experts have revealed. This figure surpasses previous estimates, which suggested that each cigarette shortens a smoker's life by 11 minutes.
The new estimates, which suggest that each cigarette leads to 20 minutes loss of live on average across both genders, are based on more up-to-date figures from long-term studies tracking the health of the population. Researchers from University College London said that the harm caused by smoking is 'cumulative' and the sooner a person stops smoking, and the more cigarettes they avoid smoking, the longer they live. The new analysis, commissioned by the Department for Health and Social Care, suggests that if a 10-cigarettes-a-day smoker quits on January 1, then by January 8 they could 'prevent loss of a full day of life'. By February 20, their lives could be extended by a whole week. And if their quitting is successful until August 5, they will likely live for a whole month longer than if they had continued to smoke. The authors added: 'Studies suggest that smokers typically lose about the same number of healthy years as they do total years of life.' Thus smoking primarily eats into the relatively healthy middle years rather than shortening the period at the end of life, which is often marked by chronic illness or disability. So a 60-year-old smoker will typically have the health profile of a 70-year-old non-smoke
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