Is it true that smoking reduces lifetime by 11 minutes for each cigarette?

Question

i've read somewhere that a smoker loses 11 minutes of his life time for each cigarette he lights

Answer 1

That is an average figure - you don't know how long any individual would live with or without smoking.

What is clear is that smoking will make you stink, that it will make you sick in a nasty variety of ways, and that if something else doesn't kill you at a young age, it will eventually lead to your death.

When you have to carry an oxygen tank with you everyplace you go or when you cough your guts out from the exertion of walking across the room, it won't matter much whether it was 11 minutes or 8 minutes each cancer stick took off your life. When your loved ones are weeping for you in intensive care and then weeping again as they bury you, they will not care exactly how many more minutes you would have lived without the nasty habit.

The fact is that smoking kills. It kills different people at different rates, but it's generally agonizingly slow doing it. In the meantime you get to give up sports, sex, or anything else, including leisurely strolls, that calls for physical exertion. You get to take lots of pills to try to slow the dying process. And you hurt every person who cares for you and has to watch your slow suicide.

Answer 2

Really, It's just a number that Scientists pull out of thin air by estimating lifespans of smokers through studies over time. It could also be said that overeating reduces lifetime by 11 minutes for each Whopper or can of non-diet soda. Or that lack of exercise reduces lifetime by 11 minutes for each sitcom you waste your time watching. It's just a scenario they are using to get their point across. P.S. Cancer & Disease kills people. Smoking cigarettes, over-eating, lack of exercise CAN and probably will lead to some disease that will cut your life short.

Answer 3

Do you always believe everything that you read. Smoking is an individuals choice. The effects can be harmful to a person systems just like foods that you eat that are sprayed with insecticides and what not. We are not safe or immune to anything. You have all the exhaust fumes from automobiles, factories etc. We breathe in and ingest toxic contagents on a daily basis. Live your life to the fullest and make the best of it.

Answer 4

Kneejerks, all.
You know, I've heard that people die.
In fact, I've never heard anything different. Ever.
Sure, smoking can kill you. There's no "11 minutes" crap, because we do NOT COME WITH AN EXPIRATION DATE. Who is to say that stopping to light up a smoke doesn't save a feller from getting hit by a bus or coming into contact with some nastly lethal STD?
Alcohol can kill you (with or without "stupid human tricks").
Food can kill you (why else the "Heimlich maneuver"?).
Air can kill you (leads to combustion, don't you know).
Walking can kill you (no one ever fell off a cliff while sitting in bed).
Speaking of "bed," sex can certainly kill you (in fact, given the number of "smiling corpses" that wind up in Florida morgues, sex is pretty high on the list of "killers").
Virtually all sports (including tiddly winks) can kill you ... proven fact that people have died while performing them.
Yeah, cigarettes can kill you. They also get you mildly high, and (to a smoker) are immensely pleasurable. But then, so is heroine (I understand).
Perhaps that is the bottom line here ... whatever is pleasurable will kill you eventually. It is purest "old-nelly-ism" to imagine that there is some magic method to live forever. And given the number of grim, sad, lonely, demented old folk waiting around in miserable, smelly, sterile "homes" to die, I think that even the seeking of at least that particular form of "immortality" is its own punishment.
Cheers.

Answer 5

Its true on cgaret packet itself written Someking is ingerious to health.

Answer 6

I heard it was just 8 minutes. But that doesn't matter to me, as I don't smoke.

Answer 7

I don't know the concrete time, but it's obvious that smoking is bad for health. You must give up smoking.

Answer 8

I read that it was 2 minutes!

Answer 9

It is true, that is the result obtained from a research.

Answer 10

i heard it was 7 minutes, yeah its true. so do some sport to add up to it :)