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[–] mortimer 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What a load of utter bollocks. By that definition my grandad would've been scheduled to die at an age of 750 if he'd quit the smokes early in life.

[–] Valmond 4 points 3 days ago

No it's only the first cigarette, the second takes only 10 minutes.

/s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

So.... what if you smoke while in hospice? Is that like a speed run?

Papers I've read say that lots of smoking damage can be recovered (slowly, over years/decades); Does this apply to this study? One cigarette in high school has the same impact of the 15,103 cigarette of a career smoker?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Paraphrasing Vonnegut: smoking is the only gentlemanly way to commit suicide left.