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To: Olog-hai

In pulmonology terms, if you smoke a pack a day for a year, that’s a “pack year”. Two packs a day in a year would be two pack-years.

After 30 pack-years of damage there is a measurable difference in pulmonary function (forced expiratory volume or FEV) in old age that is unrecoverable.

183 cigs a year, or just over 9 packs, will not have any measurable impact. It would take 1216 years of living in Paris to get measurable damage.


18 posted on 08/10/2018 6:18:24 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: fruser1

My brother smoked pack a day since age 23, and lived to age 83, and died of a heart attack from gaining too much weight. No lung cancer.


19 posted on 08/10/2018 6:26:09 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump/Pence 2020)
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