• Question: if you were 20 and you smoked 5 cigarettes a day how long would you live?

    Asked by to Del, Catherine, John, Krishna, Mo Rassul on 17 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Krishna Mohan Surapaneni

      Krishna Mohan Surapaneni answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      Every cigarette a man smokes reduces his life by 11 minutes.

      So, 5 cigarettes / day means, it reduces 55 minutes/day and 335 hours/year

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      Muhammed Rassul answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      It would depend on all the other aspects of your life. As I recall the worlds oldest person was a smoker, so it is not a death sentence. However, it does increase your chances of have all sorts of horrid conditions, which can lead to death.

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      Adelle Thrower answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      Difficult one, it will depend on your overall health etc.
      But I think the obvious answer here is not to smoke. We all have are naughty habits whether it is eating a take away or drinking too much. Ultimately to live a good long life we must exercise and eat well, we can allow ourselves some occasion naughty pleasures but it will always be at your own risk. Someone could smoke every day till they die of old age, someone else could only smoke 5 a day and get lung cancer at 45…… It’s always a gamble.

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