Study Reveals Risk of Death from Smoking, Higher than we though

[KulrMeStoopid]

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-11/smoking-risks-higher-death-disease-lung-cancer/5015588

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The risk of premature death from smoking is much more severe than previously thought for both light and heavy smokers, a large Australian study has revealed.


The study found that two thirds of deaths in current smokers can be attributed to tobacco use.


Professor Emily Banks from the Australian National University led the study, which followed 200,000 people over a four years.


"The international rule of thumb is that half of all smoker deaths are directly caused by tobacco," she said.


"We found that people who are current smokers were three times more likely to die than people who had never smoked, and their life expectancy within that four-year period was diminished by 10 years compared to the never-smokers."

 

[ScottChensoda]

What a sizist report. I'm sure small Australians could have carried out the survey equally as well.

Also, a handy job to have taken on. It must have meant many early days for the surveyors in the last few months as most of their clientèle would have popped their clogs by then. Talk about diminishing returns.

Wonder what the cost of that survey was and who will benefit from it? Authorities? I should think they are only too aware of the cost and drain on public resources. Smokers? Any smoker with half a braincell knows smoking kills, does it matter whether the odds are 1 in 2 or 2 in 3. Either way it's a shit deal.

They would have been far better spending the cost of the survey on buying vaping kits for the 200,000 and getting their surveyors a more productive job to do like building houses or schools.

 

[gettingthere]

"We found that people who are current smokers were three times more likely to die than people who had never smoked

Really? I'm fairly sure that every one of us is 100% 'likely to die'. I'd even put it more strongly than 'likely'.

 

[Chegs]

I was so depressed that I was smoking heaps more than I used to,& when told it was gonna kill me I would shrug & say that suicide by smoking was infinitely more preferable to suicide by any other means.I switched to vaping purely to save cash.The greatest benefit I get from vaping is the government don't receive 2/3rds of it back in direct taxation,I'm actually gonna laugh at smokers who whinge about the increased cost after the next budget.