UK News 31-12-1999 A Cigarette Takes 11 Minutes Of Your Life who: Bristol University Scientists what: Day smoking a cigarette will take eleven minutes off your life where: BRISTOL when: Today snippet: Research at Bristol University published in the British Medical Journal today reveals that smoking a single pack of 20 cigarettes reduces your lifespan by three hours and forty minutes. That adds up to a total of six-and-a-half years for a man smoking "an average of 16 cigarettes a day or 5,772 a year from the age of 17 until he dies at 71," reveals The Express. And The Sun has published a useful list of eleven other things you could do with those spare eleven minutes, should you give up at least one fag. They include "Go 15 yards on the M25 (on a good day)", "Boil three eggs and eat them", or better still "Have sex - followed by a cigarette". [... more]

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