The next time you’re tempted to light up, remember this: Every cigarette you smoke reduces your expected life span by 11 minutes, according to researchers at the University of Bristol in England. That means that 10 cigarettes a day for 10 years takes more than nine months off your life.
Each cigarette you suck down cuts about 11 minutes from your expected life span.
Tobacco was responsible for the deaths of 100 million people in the 20th century, and the World Health Organization estimates that in the 21st, cigarettes and other tobacco products could kill up to 1 billion. Use the information below to determine how cigarette smoking could affect your chances of living to a ripe old age.
Click here to find out how much smoking affects your lifespan
This interactive tool can be used to estimate the impact smoking will have on your lifespan. Based on the number of cigarettes you smoked in the past or how many you will smoke in the future, this tool estimates how many years the damaging effects of smoking may take away from your life.
source: health.com
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