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Thats over-exaggerated and non linear. My mother smokes 40/day but let’s say 30 because it was’t always so much. How many days lost per year? 3036520/60/24 = 1

Thats over-exaggerated and non linear. My mother smokes 40/day but let’s say 30 because it was’t always so much. How many days lost per year? 3036520/60/24 = 152days She smoke since she was 20 and she’s 64 now. How many years lost in total? (64-20)*152/365 = 18years Life expectancy for women in my country is 85yo. How many years left? 85-18-64 = 3years Oh shit I really hope that’s over exaggerated. I should call her now to tel her I love you. And stop smoking me too. Oh shit I’m crying now (for real)

dvh 2y ago
Nohavica's theory of alcoholic mountain comes to the rescue: As you are drinking, you are climbing your alcoholic mountain. While you climb up, everything is ok. Once you crosses the summit and starts going down, nobody can help you. Doctors won't help you, your friends won't help you, you won't help yourself. So what's the problem? Nobody knows how tall is their mountain! So your uncle was drinking whole life and he was fine. Yes, because his mountain was very tall. The scene is from the mocumentary "Year of the devil": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzEgqhMpk5c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzEgqhMpk5c
- aziaziazi 2y ago
  Thanks. Nice story but I’m not sure to grasp the inner meaning. I’ll try to translate the video you shared.
chithanh 2y ago
That is not now life expectancy works. You cannot take life expectancy at birth and apply it to adults by subtracting past years of life, because doing so ignores all the people that died in the meantime from related or unrelated causes. Rather you have to take remaining life expectancy at any given age and estimate from there how likely death is within 1 or 5 or 10 years. Also relevant is other existing health issues like COPD. https://openi.nlm.nih.gov/detailedresult?img=PMC2672796_copd-4-137f7&req=4 https://openi.nlm.nih.gov/detailedresult?img=PMC2672796_copd...
- aziaziazi 2y ago
  That make sense. Also the average life expectancy of a population is calculated with smokers in the cohort I guess.

dvh 2y ago

Nohavica's theory of alcoholic mountain comes to the rescue: As you are drinking, you are climbing your alcoholic mountain. While you climb up, everything is ok. Once you crosses the summit and starts going down, nobody can help you. Doctors won't help you, your friends won't help you, you won't help yourself. So what's the problem? Nobody knows how tall is their mountain! So your uncle was drinking whole life and he was fine. Yes, because his mountain was very tall. The scene is from the mocumentary "Year of the devil": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzEgqhMpk5c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzEgqhMpk5c

aziaziazi 2y ago
Thanks. Nice story but I’m not sure to grasp the inner meaning. I’ll try to translate the video you shared.

chithanh 2y ago

That is not now life expectancy works. You cannot take life expectancy at birth and apply it to adults by subtracting past years of life, because doing so ignores all the people that died in the meantime from related or unrelated causes. Rather you have to take remaining life expectancy at any given age and estimate from there how likely death is within 1 or 5 or 10 years. Also relevant is other existing health issues like COPD. https://openi.nlm.nih.gov/detailedresult?img=PMC2672796_copd-4-137f7&req=4 https://openi.nlm.nih.gov/detailedresult?img=PMC2672796_copd...

aziaziazi 2y ago
That make sense. Also the average life expectancy of a population is calculated with smokers in the cohort I guess.