New research reveals that smoking reduces life expectancy by approximately 20 minutes per cigarette, with men losing 17 minutes and women 22 minutes. The study, utilizing extensive British health data, highlights that smoking diminishes healthy years rather than solely impacting later life.
A new study claimed to discover exactly how much life expectancy people lose with each cigarette they smoke. According to the researchers, Britain has some of the best data available worldwide to estimate the average loss of life per cigarette smoked, which is approximately 20 minutes; 17 for men and 22 for women.
The authors noted that a previous study published in 2000 found that each cigarette only took 11 minutes, but they claimed the study 'made some important assumptions, for which we now have better and more up-to-date data.' According to Dr. Sarah Jackson, lead author of the new study and principal research fellow at the UCL Alcohol and Tobacco Research Group, '20 cigarettes at 20 minutes per cigarette works out to be almost seven hours of life lost per pack.' With smoking, it doesn't eat into the later period of your life that tends to be lived in poorer health. Rather, it seems to erode some relatively healthier section in the middle of life,' she told. 'So when we're talking about loss of life expectancy, life expectancy would tend to live in relatively good health. 'The time they're losing is time that they could be spending with their loved ones in fairly good health,' she said.Jackson said that the life lost from smoking cigarettes isn't necessarily something that is lost forever. 'These studies have shown that people who quit at a very young age - so by their 20s or early 30s - tend to have a similar life expectancy to people who have never smoked,' she told'But as you get older, you progressively lose a little bit more that you then can't regain by quitting. But no matter how old you are when you quit, you will always have a longer life expectancy than if you had continued to smoke. So, in effect, while you may not be reversing the life lost already, you're preventing further loss of life expectancy.' 'Stopping smoking is, without a doubt, the best thing you can do for your health'
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