: risk of lung cancer halved compared to continued smoking
(B) While plans and issuers are not required to determine a particular reasonable alternative standard in advance of an individual's request for one, if an individual is described in paragraph (f)(4)(iv)(A) of this section, a reasonable alternative standard must be furnished by the plan or issuer upon the individual's request or the condition for obtaining the reward must be waived
Matter of opinion
Gilmore, a former president of the Royal College of Physicians, added: Although the risks of two or more risk factors are not purely additive, it is likely that smoking, grade three obesity and heavy drinking will reduce life expectancy by at least 20 years. Ash also found that: 12.7% of people in England (5.9 million) are overweight and drink more than 14 units but do not smoke
And you might try to shape them to make them more that way, but that's a long process over time, and you'll probably never get fully there anyway
What youll likely find though, as a smoker, is that it does make exercise much harder than it could be
