A research team from University College London has determined that each cigarette smoked takes 20 minutes off your life (22 minutes for women and 17 for men). This is healthy life and not the loss of years of old age, when you are generally sick. According to the WHO, half of the people who do not quit smoking are killed by the habit of smoking.
According to new research, each cigarette takes 20 minutes off your life , almost double what was previously thought. This means that smokers who consume a pack a day lose more than three months of life in a year and about two decades over the course of their existence. And these are not years lost during old age full of ailments (many “justify” their vice by claiming they are not interested in living long and sick), but in middle age when you are relatively healthy, as underlined by the authors of the new study.
Quitting smoking completely and not reducing the number of cigarettes is still the best way to protect your health; according to the study “ Low cigarette consumption and risk of For instance, a meta-analysis of 141 cohort studies in 55 research documents titled “Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke: British Medical Journal” revealed that the risk of cardiovascular disorders – such as heart attack and stroke – in those who smoke one cigarette a day compared to those who consume an entire pack (twenty cigarettes) is only 50 percent lower .
So there is no proportion. Each dose, in fact, is very harmful to our health . It is no coincidence that, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) , the habit of smoking kills 50 percent of people who do not quit.
A british research team led by scientists from the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Health at the Institute of Epidemiology and Health at the prestigious University College London determined that each cigarette takes 20 minutes of life. The researchers, coordinated by Dr. Sarah E. Jackson, reached their conclusions after statistically analyzing data from the British Doctors Study . And the Million Women Study , two large and long-term studies conducted in the United Kingdom.
They thoroughly analyzed the associations between mortality rates , lifestyle, eating habits and health parameters of over 1.3 million participants. By cross-referencing all the data, the epidemiologists reached the conclusion that smoking is among the main causes of health erosion. Confirming what is already widely known in scientific literature. Each cigarette, according to the calculations, takes 22 minutes of life from women and 17 minutes from men . Therefore it is an average of about 20 minutes per person.
The data that emerged is double that of the study “ Time for a smoke? At the start of the new century, the BMJ published a study titled “One cigarette shorten your life by 11 minutes”. Each found that every cigarette smoked took away about 11 minutes of life . Compared to the period in which the previous studies were conducted. People smoke less, explain the authors of the research.
But the impact on health also depends on the way in which one smokes (how “big” the puffs are) and the predisposition to the numerous toxic compounds present in cigarettes. More specifically, Dr. Jackson and colleagues determined that the average daily consumption of cigarettes went from 15.8 to 11.5 per day in men and from 13.6 to 9.5 per day in women. Despite this progress, smoking remains among the “ leading preventable causes of disease , disability and premature death globally”.
According to WHO data, every year 8 million people die from the habit of smoking. Of which 1.3 million are victims of smokers exposed to passive smoking . In Italy alone, about 80 people die every day from lung cancer . One of the most widespread and deadly malignant tumors , which in the vast majority of cases is caused by smoking.
The WHO indicates that over 22 percent of the world’s population smokes and the majority of them are men (36.7 percent), compared to 7.8 percent of women. As indicated, this habit takes away years of healthy life and not from the old woman with her typical ailments.
“Some people might think they don’t care about losing a few years of life. Given that old age is often marked by chronic disease or disability. Smoking, however, does not shorten the ill phase of death, Dr. Jackson told the Guardian. This means that a smoker in their 60s will typically have the health profile of a non-smoker in their 70s,” she said. The experts therefore recommend that people quit immediately. A good resolution for the start of the new year.https://youtu.be/qDIKTkx4J38?si=uAdU-YZqQjjTRosZ