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ASH Key Topic: Smoking: what you need to know Health effects of smoking Around half of all lifelong smokers will die prematurely and on average, people who smoke all their lives will die 10 years younger than non-smokers.[13] It is estimated that for lifelong smokers, each cigarette will reduce their life expectancy by roughly 20 minutes.[14] Smoking is the biggest cause of cancer in the world

Some people like to have one socially from time to time over drinks, while others can't go an hour without a cigarette

Trends in mortality from smoking, and trends among non-smokers The experience of the 24 000 men in this study who were born in 1900-1930 shows persistent cigarette smoking to be more hazardous than had appeared in previous analyses of this, or any other, study (figs 2 and 3), and shows correspondingly greater long term benefits from cessation (fig 4)

Natl Cancer Inst Tob Control Monogr 21 United States Department of Health and Human Services (2014) The health consequences of smoking50 years of progress: a report of the surgeon general