Researchers at the University College London explored how much of a person's life can be shortened by smoking. "[It] works out to be almost seven hours of life lost per pack," says the study's lead author.
Yeah it’s more like each cigarette is a bullet in an incredibly large barreled revolver that’s firing at you occasionally. But it’s also not the only thing loading it. Some people will survive by chance and a lot won’t. Clean living will increase the odds you live long and it’ll increase the odds you’re healthy while alive. But there are enough people that we have plenry of pediatric oncologists and plenty of 90 year old smokers. And even the 90 year olds that don’t smoke are outliers
Yeah it’s more like each cigarette is a bullet in an incredibly large barreled revolver that’s firing at you occasionally. But it’s also not the only thing loading it. Some people will survive by chance and a lot won’t. Clean living will increase the odds you live long and it’ll increase the odds you’re healthy while alive. But there are enough people that we have plenry of pediatric oncologists and plenty of 90 year old smokers. And even the 90 year olds that don’t smoke are outliers