As a former ICU nurse I can tell you that someone who has been taking good care of their body, is fit and healthy, has a better chance of survival and less complications while recovering as someone who didn’t. No matter the injury.

If you get hit by a bus and your lung is compromised it has a harder time compensating for the injury if it was already damaged.

So yes. You might have a better chance to survive a car crash if you haven’t been smoking.

It references general body health and the sorts of things that make you age and die. Heart health, lung condition, oral health, stroke risk, skin quality, etc. All of that stuff is affected negatively by smoking. Stopping nearly instantly makes these things better, and they improve over time. So basically if you stop smoking, any way you could die of natural causes drops.

If you got hit by a bus your chance for recovery would be better as a non-smoker than a smoker.

Ever heard of what they had to do to take Rasputin out? I think its that

It means your life expectancy immediately increases. There are some things that, depending on your age, improving won’t improve life expectancy. ie, a 99 year old doing something that reduces their risk of colon cancer but nothing else will not reduce their chances of dying because something else will kill them first with 100% certainty.

Quitting smoking decreases risk of death for absolutely everyone in every circumstance

You should ABSOLUTELY quit smoking. Also, you should stop getting hit by buses. Neither one are good for you.

I first read it as “dying for a cause”. I guess cigarettes make you more revolutionary or something

Buses drive outside.

People tend to step outside for a smoke.

So yeah, you actually might be more likely to get hit by a bus if you smoke, your smoking spot is anywhere near a bus route, and you are ducking out there 2-4 times a day to stand there smoking while you play with your phone.

Dying from all causes sounds like a really rough last page.

If it was R.J. Reynolds Tobacco and Philip Morris they would prepend that statement with

“A federal court has ordered Philip Morris USA and R.J. Reyolds Tobacco to state:”

I laugh every time I see that weak ass statement displayed in convenience stores.

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Smoking makes you more visible because of the trail of smoke giving away your location - cessation makes it harder for cars to hunt you down and run you over.

Less sarcastically it’s a way of saying that your overall life expectancy is increasing as it decreases the probability that you’d die from a pretty wide array of causes… that bus is going to hit you regardless of how much you smoke but it’s less likely something else kills you first.

Your chance of dying from all causes is just your overall chance of dying.

Smoking causes death in many ways.

It means all causes collectively, not each and every cause individually.