�Survival from age 35 for continuing cigarette smokers and lifelong non-smokers among UK male doctors born 1900-1930, with percentages alive at each decade of age�.
This legendary paper followed cohorts born in the 1920s and later. In older cohorts, with greater consumption and more dangerous cigarettes, about two-thirds of smokers died prematurely. In later cohorts about one-half died prematurely an average of 10 years.