Experts reveal how many minutes of life a smoker loses with each cigarette
Experts reveal how many minutes of life a smoker loses with each cigarette
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‘The sooner smokers get off this escalator of death, the longer and healthier they can expect their lives to be,’ new study says. 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 estimates which suggested that each cigarette shortens a smoker's life by 11 minutes. The latest findings, which claim that each cigarette leads to a 20-minute loss of life 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 research, commissioned by the Department for Health and Social Care, suggests that if a 10-cigarettes-a-day smoker quits on 1 January, then by 8 January they could “prevent loss of a full day of life”.
Every cigarette smoked costs precious minutes of life, and the cumulative impact is devastating, not only for individuals but also for our healthcare system and economy. By 20 February, their lives could be extended by a whole week. And if their quitting is successful until 5 August, they will likely live for a whole month longer than if they had continued to smoke.
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