Questions about smoking?

Question

I can't find answers easily on the internet, so:
1. How many more cigarette smokers per100 000 die each year than non smokers?
2. the same for how many more against pipe smokers.
3. The overweight smoker is probably...
4. the trained athlete is probably...
the non smoker of average weight is preobably...

thanks

Answer 1

You may want to search again using the phrase "excess mortality" as in "excess mortality associated with smoking"... that ends up being doctor-speak for the sorts of questions you're interested in.

Using the search term above reveals a nugget in the British Medical Journal at http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/328/7455/1519. It's a study of men recruited in the 1950's and followed until death. For those study participants who were born from 1900-1930, smoking was associated, on average, with 10 years less life expectancy. The authors go on to subdivide the groups and estimate the number of years of life that would be saved by quitting at various ages. Turns out that quitting at age 30 gives you ALMOST all the lost years of life back... you get less years back for quitting at 40, 50, etc.

Best of luck on the further searches!