By comparison, smoking a single cigarette reduces life expectancy by about 11 minutes. An adult who spends an average of six hours a day watching TV over the course of a lifetime can expect to live 4.8 years fewer than a person who does not watch TV.
References:
Get Up. Get Out. Don't Sit. - NYTimes, 2012 http://nyti.ms/10oXBQd
Comments from Twitter and Google Plus:
Humera Naqvi, MD @nayab78: hmmm that means we ppl should be dying early taking the amount of tv watched but life expectancy has increased.
K Dillon, RDMS,CPC-A @comalliwrites: Confounders & confirmation bias not accounted for...
@ShadolooDoll: Misleading. It isn't TV itself, but the lack of activity. A person who is dedicated to exercise can still watch TV, right?
Timothy Cook: Great, since I stopped watching TV. I can start smoking again! ;-)
Davíð Þórisson: Phew - no mention of watching Youtube! :-)
Jimena Yosara Aguilar Jimenez: I'll never watch tv again
Dimiter Stanev: Does that mean that disabled people suffer from this too?
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