Monday, August 29, 2005

Is SMOKING CIGARRETE BAD .. a mathematical model !!

There are several philosophies and stats against smoking.

One thousand Americans stop smoking every day - by dying .
But what is the population of US .. it is 295 million
So (1000/ 259000000 )*100= .00034%
In a year .00034% * 365 = 0.125% i.e. 1 out of 800 die because of smoking every year

But how many do smoke out of 800. Lets have a conservative estimate - 300 people out of 800 smoke.

That means 1 out of 300 smokers die every year.

But important point to understand is 299 dont die ..

What do you guys have to comment on it?

3 Comments:

Blogger MarkOUT said...

Once or twice a day is fine .. But it will be great if one can leave it. But smoking occasionally is fine!!

5:46 AM  
Blogger MarkOUT said...

what is wrong with a guy who smokes once or twice a day .. it reduces only 5 mins from his life (1 cigarrete reduce 5 mins)

But the enjoyment after a cigarette is also there!! relaxes you as well..

I feel that it should not be a habbit .. excess of everything is bad .. But a midway path is always the preffered choice !!

6:21 AM  
Blogger amitsinha said...

well smoking is bad till the moment you are not confident of quitting it.
But some old intelligent fellow has written "quitting smoking is very easy and I have done it 100 times".
So it depends that you take an easy path of quitting it 100 times or call it a day for once and all.

9:12 AM  

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