Based on Odds, Smokers Die Earlier

Bad news for smokers (I guess this is NOT NEW news at all). A study says probability of death is higher for smokers as shown in the chart below from New York Times…

From the New York Times ``New risk charts in a paper published in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute provide a broader perspective than most of the risk calculators on the Internet, because they cover the risks for 10 different causes of death, and for all causes combined, while differentiating by age and between smokers, nonsmokers and former smokers.”

``At first glance, it may appear that smokers and nonsmokers die of heart disease at the same rate, but a 35-year-old male smoker is seven times as likely to die of heart disease as a nonsmoker the same age. The numbers begin to converge as some smokers survive the more common smokers’ diseases, and by age 75, their rate of death from heart disease is almost the same as nonsmokers’.”

So if a smoker does hurdle the said risks diseases by age 75, death rate is almost the same as nonsmokers. So if you can’t help get rid of the habit maybe eating watercress can get you through to the age were smokers and non smokers have level chances of dying.