The nature of epidemics

One interesting fact I learnt is that smokers typically over estimate the average number of years lost from their life as a result of smoking.  They commonly believe all of the anti smoking adverse health related literature and say things like 15 or 20 years will be lost.  

The truth is that only 6 years on average are lost from a smokers life.
 
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