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!
Is it true every cigarette you smoke 12 min. subtracts from your life?
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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!
Hope you enjoyed reading :D