14.5 fewer

I read a lot of magazines on my train ride back from my morning workouts with Kris. Today's magazine was this month's Health. On page 44, there's a statement,

"On average, female smokers die 14.5 years earlier than nonsmokers."

The source of the statistic is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Fourteen and a half years earlier. Sure, that's on average, and some people smoke until their 90th birthday. If smoking is, however, the difference between living to 65 and living to 80, wouldn't that possibly be motivation to stop stinking by stopping smoking?

Not sure if most smokers know that they stink. As in really stink. As is, do you really think that by going outside, smoking, and waving your hands around, that I couldn't smell the stench on your clothes?

I suspect the quality of life for those extra 14.5 years is better for non-smokers, too.