Cigarettes only take three minutes off your life because it takes three minutes to smoke them. Think of all the other fun things you could be doing with your oral cavity in those three minutes. My list includes: eating charred animal flesh, drinking alcohol, huffing straight asbestos, and administering sweet sweet lovin'. I'm a real man's man, make no mistake about it.
Bassytrappy, you should be ashamed of yourself... ten bucks canadian... that won't even buy the poor kid a pack. Tsk tsk.