Detail of a man holding a smoking cigarette in his hand. Smoking just one cigarette can reduce life expectancy by about 20 minutes, according to research commissioned by the U.K. government.

Each cigarette a person smokes could shorten their life by 20 minutes, according to new estimates. The new figures are an increase on previous estimates, which suggested a cigarette shortens a ...

Smokers have been urged to kick the habit as they enter the new year after new analysis reveals the time lost by each cigarette smoked. The new stats reveal that men lose approximately 17 minutes of ...

Or sign-in if you have an account. A new assessment of the harms of smoking shows cigarettes shorten life expectancy even more than doctors thought in the past. Researchers from University College ...

Previous estimates were that each cigarette shaved 11 minutes off a lifetime. The new research indicates that smoking one pack of 20 cigarettes shortens a life by nearly 7 hours. Even a single ...

Smoking a single cigarette is enough to take 20 minutes off your life expectancy, almost double the figure previously thought, according to a medical study. This means a typical pack of 20 ...

But this time, instead of being the happy-go-lucky Buddy fans know and love, the 57-year-old actor and comedian looked hilariously grumpy and pretended to smoke a cigarette as he took in the game ...

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Smoking e-cigarettes—also referred to as vaping—remains less popular than traditional cigarette smoking, with 11.5% of adults still lighting up, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

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AS a new study reveals exactly how long cigarettes can shave off your life, you might be inspired to quit smoking for good. Smokers slash an average of 20 minutes off their life with every ...