One often hears that the death rate of a person that smokes is, at each age, twice

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One often hears that the death rate of a person that smokes is, at each age, twice that of a nonsmoker. What does this mean? Does it mean that a nonsmoker has twice the probability of surviving a given number of years as does a smoker of the same age?

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