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Question: One ciggarette is 8min off your life!?
(on average)
how much days would it be in a year if you smoked an average 25packet!?

i forgot the site where i got 8min but correct me if im wrong!
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
I have always been told 1 cigarette would take 11 mins from your life

(25 fags a day) one day = 275 mins

(25 fags a days) one year = 100375


I may be wrong, but that is what I have been told!.

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No, it is not!. Even where there is a study that purportedly predicts the effect of cigarette smoking on age, the effect cannot not be reasonably be broken down into a minute by minute analysis!. That is simply not what the study is purporting to measure!. I use the word purport because it is quite a stretch to draw a definitive link between smoking and life expectancy, because there are as many extenuating factors as can be imagined in any such study, which generally rule out any link of causality!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

If that's the case, my grandparents who are 87 and 83 and have been smoking for over 60 years, and no signs of quitting would probably live to be in their 120's had they not smoked!.
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Statistical truths are to be taken with a pinch of salt!. Every event, including death, is caused by numerous causes interacting and counteracting with each other in a highly complex manner leaving us really in the dark about how and when it happens finally!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

This has absolutely nothing to do with philosophy!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

No one is getting out of here alive!. So life is the leading cause of death!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

If only that were true I would take up smoking again!. But with my luck I would linger!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

im not sure, but i think 2737 1/2 days!.!.!. but im not sure!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

If that's true, then I died about 6 years ago!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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