Re: SatisfactionIn article <4qtt64pj9r1174sp4vs4haepsorpfo5beh@4ax,com >,
Robert <no@e.mail> wrote:
> On 04 Jul 2008 16:31:16 GMT, anon3c67@nyx.nyx,net (Bruce Watson) wrote:
>
> > http :// www .xpress4me,com /news/uae/dubai/20008381.html
>
> "Years ago the British Medical Journal came out with a study on how smoking
> cuts down life
> expectancy of a smoker. In the report, the researchers said every cigarette
> smoked by a
> person robbed him of his life expectancy by 11 minutes. They noted that if a
> person smoked
> 5,772 cigarettes on an average in a year - from the age of 17 until his death
> at 71 - he
> would have consumed 311,688 cigarettes. This, they said, would result in
> losing 6.5 years
> of his life expectancy."
>
> Applying their 'scientific' calculation, I died 28.7 years ago.
You totally missed the point that that statement was based on averages.