01-05-2017, 11:19 PM
Lew Zealand wrote:
Smoking kills only about 1 in 7 lifelong smokers...
Source for this statistic?
"Cigarette smoking causes about one of every five deaths in the United States each year"
Remember, lung cancer is not the only cigarette-related cause of premature death.
"The major causes of excess mortality among smokers are diseases that are related to smoking, including cancer and respiratory and vascular disease."
And just because a smoker lived to 82 or 87...
"Life expectancy for smokers is at least 10 years shorter than for nonsmokers."
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statist.../index.htm