The Tobacco Reference Guide by David Moyer

by David Moyer, MD.

Chapter 3 Mortality And Longevity Data

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30 year old smokers will shorten their lives by an average of 6 to 8 years if they smoke

a pack a day. The life expectancy for a 45 year old male smoker is 7 years less than

for a nonsmoker. For women of the same age, there is a 4.7 year difference in life

expectancy between smokers and nonsmokers.

Nonsmokers Pay Less: the Insurance Market, Europe Against Cancer, 1992, pp. 4

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In the previous centuries 70 years used to be regarded as humanity's allotted span of

life, and only about one in five survived to such an age. In developed countries the

situation is now reversed; in the absence of tobacco, only about one in five will die

before age 70.

Mortality from Smoking, p. A5

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The average loss of life for those killed by tobacco is about 16 years. Since about half

of all regular smokers in developed countries are eventually killed by the habit,

teenagers or young adults who became regular cigarette smokers are reducing their

life expectancy by the substantial amount of about 8 years.

Mortality from Smoking, p. A5

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