A quarter of heavy smokers do not reach their 65th birthday
One in four heavy smokers dies before the age of 65. The life expectancy of heavy smokers (more than twenty cigarettes per day) is on average 13 years shorter than that of never smokers. This has emerged from new research by Statistics Netherlands and the Trimbos Institute into the relationship between smoking and mortality.
The study is based on the survey and death data of nearly 40 20 to 80-year-old respondents from the Health Survey from 2001 to 2006. It investigated whether and when smokers and non-smokers who took part in the health survey, have died.
This study shows that smokers die at a relatively young age. It is estimated that 23 percent of smokers who smoke heavily throughout their lives do not reach the age of 65. 11 percent of light smokers die before the age of 7, of non-smokers 65 percent. The life expectancy of heavy smokers is on average 13 years shorter than that of people who have never smoked. Moderate smokers (less than twenty cigarettes a day) lose an estimated 9 years of life, light smokers (not smoking daily) 5 years.
Cancer is the leading cause of young deaths
Smokers relatively often died of cancer, especially lung cancer. But cardiovascular and respiratory diseases were also more common among them. For example, an estimated 11 percent of heavy smokers died of cancer before the age of 65, and 5 percent of lung cancer. 5 percent died of cardiovascular disease. Of the never-smokers, 3 percent died as young from cancer and 1 percent from cardiovascular disease.
Stopping pays off
Quitting smoking pays off, at all ages. Ex-smokers who quit before age 35 have a similar life expectancy to never-smokers. The mortality risk of smokers who quit around the age of 50 is halved.
Four in ten deaths under the age of 80 from tobacco
The study shows that in the Netherlands in recent years 4 in 10 deaths before the age of 80 were caused by tobacco. But people are smoking less and less. About fifteen years ago, 10 percent of the Dutch smoked at least twenty cigarettes every day, today 4 percent are still heavy smokers. The number of moderate smokers also fell sharply in this period, from 18 to 14 percent. The percentage of non-daily smokers has been at 5 to 6 percent for years.
Not really news, but it can't be said often enough.
However, life expectancies and mortality risks are not such appealing variables. After all, isn't the mortality rate 100% for everyone?
If you puzzle a bit with the numbers, you can calculate that on average you die 11 minutes earlier by smoking one cigarette.
Incidentally, the figures do not take into account the fact that smokers generally also have more unhealthy lifestyles than non-smokers, so to attribute the accelerated mortality entirely to smoking is not entirely fair, but it is very bad indeed. Yes I know who says it…
Applicable article in Bangkok Post today
https://goo.gl/a6uWbh
The pension fund is clearly happy with this. Saves paying out again for a few years, right?
Nice numbers that should have some effect. But not everyone wants to grow old anyway. An often heard argument from smokers is that you have to die of something and there are also smokers who live to be a hundred so….what are we talking about. Or you can also die of other causes, also such a clincher.
No one can say "I didn't know" these days, so I don't mind those early self-inflicted deaths. People who smoke do it themselves, unless they are forced to smoke then it's a different matter, but I haven't experienced that yet.
I "smoke" along with cars that drive by and cause particulate matter.
Why is it that people are diagnosed with lung cancer or pancreatic cancer when they have never smoked or drunk?
What does your pancreas have to do with alcohol?
https://www.kennisinstituutbier.nl/nieuws/verhoogd-risico-op-alvleesklierkanker-bij-meer-dan-drie-alcoholische-consumpties-dag
Yes, wonderful, but it does not say that there is a relationship between pancreatic cancer and drinking beer. There is an increased risk related to lifestyle. Just like people who exercise less are also more likely to get cancer. That does not mean that the cause of cancer is too little exercise.
Also, I have no interest in this discussion. Every scientist and doctor agrees that smoking is very bad for your health. People who claim or say otherwise are also fine. Ostriches also need to live. Do what you want to do, we are (fortunately) free to do that.
There is a relationship between smoking and lung cancer, and there is also a relationship between alcohol and pancreatic cancer.
That's because smoking and drinking aren't the only causes of cancer.
Lung cancer is 90% caused by smoking, I read in publications in the Netherlands and Belgium. So 10% has another cause.
For pancreatic cancer, smokers are 82% more likely to get it. ( source study Mirjam Heinen , University of Maastricht, Kennisinstuutbier.nl ). In addition to drinking more than 3 glazan alcohol, which gives 150% more chance of this form of cancer than not drinking.
If you live in Bangkok you are indirectly “forced”.
The city is so polluted in terms of air that I think you die here twice as much as a smoker.
I would like to see these numbers.^^
As a COPD candidate, I will stay here as short as possible.
So most heavy smokers still living in the Netherlands and married to a Thai can forget their pension and the Swiss life in their expensively built house in Thailand? I also sometimes smoke a cigar.
Dear Editor (have to start with something),
I smoke and it's bad..True.
Still, I wonder what's going on in the air.
If I enter into a discussion with a non-smoker (which I no longer do)
I ask first if he or she has a car and tell him if he or she
his car starts it burns a whole pack of cigarettes in one go.
Done discussion.
Source, myself.
Yours faithfully,
Erwin
I don't hang my mouth on a car exhaust to inhale the smoke, so I don't worry.
Read the publications. Simple: 90% of lung cancer cases are caused by cancer. 9 out of 10 cases.
edited my response: 90% of lung cancer cases are caused by smoking.
I am happy that I was able to reach my 65th birthday.
If there is a person who smokes a lot to very much, it is me: almost 1 pack of heavy rolling tobacco (50 grams) per day, with the mention that I usually throw a shaggie away when it is half burnt out because of the need to drink something. have to do at work, or that the thing has gone out.
Being in Thailand, the packs of Marlboro fly through at a breakneck speed, 3 packs, at least one day is a common thing.
Good reaction Khun Peter, grab it above the hips!! I agree with you.
And Henri, also on the right track! Please let the smokers continue to smoke, otherwise we will have to give up pension and AOW!
Peer