How much of your life has smoking cost?

Each cigarette you smoke costs about eleven minutes of life expectancy, according to Shaw, Mitchell and Dorling, BMJ 2000. For a pack-a-day smoker, that adds up to roughly a day of life lost every two to three days of smoking — a quiet, ongoing trade that most people never see the bill for.

Enter your daily cigarette count, the age you started, and your current age. The calculator does the multiplication. It also shows you how many years of life you can still recover by quitting — because the body is forgiving, and most of those lost years are not yet lost.