In some studies, at the end of them, I see:

“quitting smoking reduces your chance of dying from all causes.”

So if I quit smoking I’m less likely to get hit by a bus?

    • kuneho@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      One of my “modern” folk song is about exactly this phenomenon.

      Edit: here it is, if someone is interested, it’s an old-styled, descending, parlando rubato hungarian folk song. I noted it down using solmization.

               A
  2/4||: la,/8 mi/8 mi/8 re/8 | mi/4+ mi/8 | ti,/8 do/8 re/8 mi/8 | ti,/4 la,/4 | ti,/2* :|
         B
     ||: do/8 do/8 ti,/8 la,/8 | mi/8 re/8 do/4 | ti,/2* | do/8 do/8 do/8 re/8 | mi/8 re/8 do/8 | ti,/2* |
         C
     || so,/8 so,/8 so,/8 so,/8 | so,/4* do/8 ta,/8* | la,/2** ||

      (the comma after the solmization indicates the note being in a lower octave. Plus sign after a not length value means it’s dotted. Asteriks means fermata. Also, there is one strange solmization note (used in relative solmization) which I marked as “ta”, it’s a flat ti.)

      And the lyrics (in hungarian)

      “Várakozom én a százötvenegyes buszra, ( A )
      Kezemben készen a sodort cigaretta, ( A )
      Meg is gyújtom azon nyomban, ( B )
      Szippantok belőle hosszan, ( B )
      Ah, de megjött már az a busz.” ( C )

      Which translates to this (I used ChatGPT for the translating, told it to be a bit more… free or poetic or idk):

      “Standing at the stop, the one-fifty-one in sight,
      In my hand, a cigarette rolled tight.
      I light it up, breathe in the smoke,
      A long, deep breath, with every toke,
      Ah, but now the bus is here, just right.”