La cuenta de Instagram @MEDspiration, manejada por una asociación sin fines de lucro, publica videos pedagógicos sobre ciertos hábitos de la vida diaria que afectan nuestra salud.

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En uno de los videos, un grupo de estudiantes explica cuáles son las consecuencias que tiene fumar un paquete de veinte cigarrillos en nuestros pulmones. Y es bastante gráfico:

WHY ONE CIGARETTE COSTS YOU 11 MINUTES #QuitSmoking One cigarette can reduce our life by about 11 minutes! In this video, we watch as a group of medical student’s feed a healthy pair of lungs 20 cigarettes (a pack of Marlboro menthol). Following administration of the 20 cigarettes, we can clearly analyze that tar build up in the trachea & discoloration of the lung has already set in! There is about a 6.5 year difference in life expectancy between smokers & non-smokers. We calculated that if a man smokes the average number of cigarettes a year (5,772 ~ about 3/4ths of a pack a day) from the median starting age of 17 until his death at the age of 71 (the average life expectancy worldwide) he will consume a total of 311,688 cigarettes (57 years x 5,772 cigarettes) in his lifetime. If we then assume that each cigarette makes the same contribution to his death (6.5 years earlier than non-smokers = mortality would be 3,418,560 minutes earlier), each cigarette has cost him, on average, 11 minutes of life (3,418,560/311,688=11 minutes per cigarette)! This calculation is admittedly crude, it relies on averages, assumes that the health effects of smoking are evenly spread throughout a smoker’s lifetime. It also presumes that the number of cigarettes smoked throughout a lifetime is constant, & ignores the difficulties in classifying people as either lifetime smokers or non-smokers. However, it shows the high cost of smoking in a way that everyone can understand! If you have been thinking about quitting or want to learn more, click on the link in our bio & check out our video on ‘How to Purify Smokers Lungs’ on YouTube, don’t forget to [SUBSCRIBE] & join our family! A special thank you to all of our wonderful followers here on Instagram for helping our video reach 25,000 views on YouTube. You guys are the best! Happy Friday. #MEDspiration Written by Student Doctor: @medspired ©07/01/2016 All Rights Reserved. TAG SOMEONE WHO SMOKES! This research on ‘1 cigarette reduces your life by 11 minutes’ was published in the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1117323/_).

Un vídeo publicado por MEDspiration® | 501(c)(3) NFP (@medspiration) el 1 de Jul de 2016 a la(s) 8:20 PDT

“Calculamos que, si un hombre fuma un aproximado de 5772 cigarrillos por año (un tercio/un cuarto de paquete de 20 por día) desde los 17 años hasta los 71 (datos aproximados de expectativa de vida), va a fumar un total de 311.688 cigarrillos en su vida. Si luego asumimos que cada cigarrillo que fuma contribuye de igual manera a su muerte (cada fumador vive 6.5 años menos que un no fumador, 3,418,560 minutos menos), entonces, cada cigarrillo le costará, en promedio, 11 minutos de su vida.“

Las estadísticas son espeluznantes. Si querés dejar de fumar, podés empezar por un video (está en inglés) del mismo grupo de su canal de YouTube sobre “Cómo limpiar tus pulmones”: