In a 2008 study, scientists at the Peninsula Medical School in the U.K. assessed the well - being of nearly 10,000 people over the age of 50 and found that smokers in the group reported lower - than - average levels of pleasure and less satisfaction with their
lives than the nonsmokers.
Even 6 months later, nonsmokers who frequented the casino encountered more thirdhand
smoke than nonsmokers who live in homes previously inhabited by smokers, the researchers report today in the journal Tobacco Control.
Nonsmokers who breastfed for periods of longer than six months tended to be diagnosed with breast cancer much later in life - an average of 10 years later
than nonsmokers who breastfed for a shorter period.
Smokers often look old before their time, because they have significantly more wrinkles
than nonsmokers of the same age.
Smokers tend to be less
happy than nonsmokers, and the effect is heighened the lower their economic status.
«The casino was much more polluted with thirdhand smoke
than any nonsmoker home we have examined to date,» Matt said.
Former smokers showed more
activity than nonsmokers in 124 genes, including several associated with lung disease — despite having quit up to 32 years earlier.
Female smokers go through menopause several years
earlier than nonsmokers, on average, and a few years ago a team of molecular biologists led by Jonathan Tilly of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston reported that egg cell death was responsible.
Holding all other variables constant, daily smokers were 60 per cent less likely to
vote than nonsmokers.
Recent research corroborates that smokers have the highest risk of SSIs and former smokers are at greater risk of
infection than nonsmokers.
We know from previous research that smokers are an increasingly marginalised population, involved in fewer organisations and activities and with less interpersonal
trust than nonsmokers,» said Karen Albright, from the University of Colorado Cancer Centre, and the paper's first author.
In fact, according to a 2008 study by researchers at John Hopkins University, smokers were four times as likely to feel tired and groggy in the
morning than nonsmokers.
Studies consistently show that smokers have lower plasma and leukocyte vitamin C
levels than nonsmokers, due in part to increased oxidative stress [8].
Rates for tobacco users is substantially
higher than any nonsmoker, so getting covered before you ever start smoking is a very good idea.
Life insurance for a man in his 30s can expect to pay about two to three times as much for a
policy than a nonsmoker.
Insurance companies charge this massive price increase because smokers have such a higher risk of
death than nonsmokers.
Smokers were 30 % more
likely than nonsmokers to have taken 10 to 24 sick days in the previous year, and smoking put an even greater dent in productivity than obesity, according to the study, which appears in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
In response to the study, the e-cigarette industry group the American Vaping Association said this new research «adds to the growing body of evidence that youth smokers and those seeking to quit smoking are much more likely
than nonsmokers to use vapor products beyond mere experimentation.
For example, smokers are known to pay significantly more for life insurance
than nonsmokers.
Smokers can expect to pay 3 to 4 times as much for life insurance
than nonsmokers.
While it is true that, on average, if you are seeking life insurance as a smoker, you will pay more for coverage — about four times more
than nonsmokers — almost every lifestyle choice, budget, age, and health condition has its policy.
Comparatively over a group, the premiums could be as much as 4 times higher, or as little as about 1.5 times more
than a nonsmoker would pay.