Once a guy has his mind set on a girl he’ll do what ever it takes to get engaged to her. A person I know went as far as saying that he was going to give up his career and learn in Kollel for the rest of his life for a particular girl he was interested in. While he might say that he’ll quit, once they get married, the initial bliss is over and they are back to ordinary life, he’ll take up smoking again.
Here’s what’s so bad about smoking-
In the following mortality table “Age” is the left column, the next column is the probability of a non-smoker dying during a particular month at that age followed by the probability of a smoker dying during a particular month at that age. The last column is the percentage increase in mortality that a smoker has verses a non-smoker. (There are many mortality tables out there, I picked this one at random from a website that helps users determine the premium they should be paying for life insurance.)
For example a standard 33 year old non-smoker has a .00154 probability (about one in 650) of dying during that month while for a smoker it’s .00229 (about one in 437), an increase of 49%.
Age Non-smoker Smoker Ratio
18 0.00149 0.00199 34%
19 0.00153 0.00206 35%
20 0.00155 0.00209 35%
21 0.00154 0.00210 36%
22 0.00151 0.00208 38%
23 0.00149 0.00205 38%
24 0.00146 0.00200 37%
25 0.00143 0.00195 36%
26 0.00141 0.00193 37%
27 0.00139 0.00192 38%
28 0.00139 0.00193 39%
29 0.00140 0.00196 40%
30 0.00141 0.00202 43%
31 0.00144 0.00209 45%
32 0.00148 0.00218 47%
33 0.00154 0.00229 49%
34 0.00161 0.00242 50%
35 0.00168 0.00258 54%
36 0.00178 0.00278 56%
37 0.00189 0.00301 59%
38 0.00203 0.00328 62%
39 0.00217 0.00359 65%
40 0.00234 0.00394 68%
41 0.00251 0.00433 73%
42 0.00270 0.00475 76%
43 0.00291 0.00519 78%
44 0.00313 0.00568 81%
45 0.00338 0.00619 83%
46 0.00364 0.00673 85%
47 0.00393 0.00730 86%
48 0.00425 0.00792 86%
49 0.00458 0.00860 88%
50 0.00497 0.00934 88%
51 0.00541 0.01018 88%
52 0.00592 0.01113 88%
53 0.00650 0.01220 88%
54 0.00714 0.01336 87%
55 0.00784 0.01460 86%
56 0.00860 0.01589 85%
57 0.00942 0.01723 83%
58 0.01029 0.01864 81%
59 0.01127 0.02014 79%
60 0.01238 0.02182 76%When a smoker is in his late 40s to early 50s his chance of dying from smoking is almost equal to the probability of dying from everything else combined!