Number of cigarettes smoked
It has been calculated that each cigarette you smoke takes
11 minutes off your life. The amount you have reduced your lifespan has been calculated for you below.
Cost of cigarettes smoked
Amount of tar ingested
Although tar is brown and sticky, it's not the same stuff that they put down on roads. It's actually a much deadlier substance made up of 200 different toxic compounds. It stains your teeth, skin and hair, gives you a smokers cough and can eventually lead to
emphysema and
lung cancer.
Amount of nicotine ingested
Nicotine is the chemical that you are addicted to. It's not that harmful in itself, just very very addictive.
Find out how addicted you are
Amount of carbon monoxide inhaled
Carbon monoxide is the same gas that car exhausts pump out. Many people each year die from carbon monoxide posioning caused by faulty exhausts and boilers.
Find out how carbon monoxide kills
Amount of arsenic ingested
Arsenic is a deadly poison that has been used in many assassinations through history.
100 milligrams of arsenic, accumulated over a two month period is enough to kill. Arsenic can cause cancer at much lower levels than this.
Read more about arsenic
Amount you have reduced your lifespan by
If you stop smoking now, you will stop chipping away at your valuable time on this planet.
Read about this statistic
Amount of Time you have spent smoking
Many people see the time they spend smoking as valuable networking time. But, if you really think about it, how much time have you spent stood outside a building, alone and in the freezing cold, while you desperately try to drag smoke into your lungs as quickly as possible?
