Mortality tables issued by the Actuarial Profession suggest male smokers have a one in a hundred chance of dying at the age of 60 and are twice as likely to die as non-smokers.
Tables published as part of the Continuous Mortality Investigation reveal the difference in mortality rates between smokers and non-smokers is a greater gap than between men and women at every age. At a younger age, figures suggest a male smoker aged 30 buying a whole of life, endowment or term assurance product is twice as likely to die at that stage in their lives and has an 8 in 10,000 chance of dying, compared with a 4 in 10,000 chance as a non-smoker. A woman smoker, on the other hand, purchasing the same product has a 4 in 10,000 chance of dying at the age of 30, compared with a...
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