Interactive Tool: How Does Smoking Affect Your Lifespan?

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Click here to find out how much smoking affects your lifespanClick here to see an interactive tool..

This interactive tool can be used to estimate the impact smoking will have on your lifespan. Based on the number of cigarettes you smoked in the past or how many you will smoke in the future, this tool estimates how many years the damaging effects of smoking may take away from your life.


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Author: Debby Golonka, MPH
Caroline Rea, RN, BS, MS
Last Updated: October 11, 2007
Medical Review: Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine
John Hughes, MD - Psychiatry

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