Originally Posted by CliffordK

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/...smokings-toll/

Drop 10 years off of the average life expectancy. Whew!!!!

Of course it doesn't impact everyone the same. Some will drop dead at 50, others will survive into their 90's.

You won't really know which camp you will fall into until you get lung cancer or bladder cancer or throat cancer, or emphysema... Or you are one that make it to a good old age, and kick it for some other reason.

And, of course, secondary effects such as asthma in children.