Is it true every cigarette you smoke 12 min. subtracts from your life?

False. My gf's Opa smoked everyday from 17 right up til his death at 91. He passed away from old age, not lung cancer.

Theres nothing else better to do than smoke.Unless you got money to go to a fuckin casino.

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Smoking a cigarette could also add 12 minutes to your life. It could even save your life! Who gives a fuck?

Think about the science behind this. How is it actually possible to make a prediction on how much time of your life is lost by smoking one cigarette?

Well one way is to take a chain smoker and take a non-smoker and compare their age at death, then record the number of cigarettes smoked by the smoker and use simple mathematics to get down to time lost by one cigarette.

Now what variables are there that could make this experiment inaccurate? Actually, there are lots --- diet, initial age differences between the test subjects, physical fitness of the subjects, their lifestyle etc etc. In fact, the subjects would have to live exactly the same life, with the only difference of one person smoking, to make an even remotely accurate result!

In the end, this 12minutes number comes from lots of guesswork, statistics and assumptions, also it's more than likely rounded up a bit to make it more scary.

Either way, smoking is a pretty horrible habit as the companies tend to throw in some chemicals you don't want to put anywhere near your body! Not to mention, it gives you some nasty yellow teeth! And I quite like my teeth the way they are, thanks!

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I'm not sure it can be established with precision, since you can't know for certain how long a person would have lived. It's all statistics... but who knows. The thing you know for sure is that smoke is poison, and that's enough.

Why would you even doubt it? American tobacco companies add some interesting chemicals to the paper to help make them MORE addictive, like; Formaldehyde!
You know, the stuff they preserve a body with.
Whether it's 12 seconds, minutes or days, you can bet that smoking tobacco will shorten your life considerably.

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No. If you throw a dice a trillion times, the average score is 3.5. How many people throwing their dice get a score of 3.5, though? In this case, not a single one. Zero people are average here, out of a trillion tested. Same with coin tossing. Average doesn't mean majority. It means mean.

Impossible to say since you never know how old you otherwise would have become. Besides, it's different for everybody. There are some people that are still quite young but there's just about everything wrong with them and still they keep on smoking. If they would just stop smoking, perhaps they'd get healthy again. It just infects them more than average. There are also people that can smoke their entire life and there's never anything wrong with them. They're lucky it infects them less than average.

But my opinion is to better be safe than sorry. Therefor I don't smoke. I never did and never will, I just don't want to.

I think smoking in relation to longevity varies from person to person. My great grandma died when she was well into her 70s and she was a daily smoker for 30 plus years. My great grandpa also heavily smoked for most of his life and he died in his 80s. You cannot really determine who will be killed by smoking.

No you can't really work it out without knowing the specifics of the individual smoker. This due to light smoking being less damaging than heavy smoking. You could do a statistical analysis on average life loss from smoking for the individual if you had the specific data.

The problem is that these are all probabilities. Some people in my family chain smoked until they died of old age with no cancer. I don't smoke but unfortunately I am just as heavily addicted to nicotine. About 100mg of nicotine a day.

Maybe on average, but it isn't likely to be true for one person. It's not like the heart attack destined to kill you will come 12 minutes earlier because you smoked a cigarette once or anything.

There's no exact number of minutes. I've heard anywhere from 5 to 12, but the most common number is 7.
We all know that smokers, on average, live shorter lives than non-smokers.
As for the smokers, if you were to average in how many years a group of otherwise healthy people smoked and how many cigarettes per day, then compare their lifespans to one another, you would find that the ones who smoked less would live longer on average, but not by much. That's because there is absolutely no way to quantify how many minutes a cigarette takes off a person's life- there are simply too many variables. Aside from environment, which is a big enough problem, there's also genetic variability to contend with. Some smokers who smoke the same amount for the same number of years develop emphysema or lung cancer and some never have any complications at all and live to be just as old and healthy as anyone else.
So no, there is no exact number for everyone. Every person who smokes has their own.

I've heard something similar once but I don't really take those things seriously. We all will die one day.

Most people who smoke would suck a cock.

No, but you are greatly increasing your risk of dying relatively young from lung cancer.

These "calculations" aren't very meaningful in themselves.

Actually 12 mins and 17 secs, but yes.