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LIFE! CHOOSE BREATH NOT DEATH!

Thomas3.20.2010
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Just curious.... how much life expectancy can you and I gain by becoming EXes? Of course, nobody can generalize their life which is in Our Creator's hands but statistics do give us some idea....

From the European Code of Cancer Statistics:

"Tobacco can kill in over twenty different ways including causes such as lung cancer and other forms of cancer, heart disease, strokes and chronic bronchitis and other respiratory diseases. Smokers have three times the death rate in middle-age (between the ages of 35 and 69) than non-smokers and about half of regular cigarette smokers will eventually die from their habit.

Many of these are not particularly heavy smokers but they can be characterised by starting smoking in their teenage years. Half of the deaths from tobacco will take place in middle age (35-69) and each will lose approximately 20-25 years of non-smokers life expectancy: the remaining half of the deaths will take place after the age of 70.

Life Expectancy in the U.S. is 75.4 years for Males and 80.4 years for Females.  I'm 53 years old. How old are you? Don't you think it's past time to get serious about your quit and realize: 

Protect your QUIT as if your LIFE depends on it - because IT DOES!

About the Author
63 years old. 20 year smoker. 11 Years FREE! Diagnosed with COPD. Choosing a Quality LIFE! It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. -Galatians 5:1