Smokers face 1 in 100 chance of dying at 60

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...