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Since Mr Patrick McCarthy submitted our first Bestimate request on Saturday, a lot has happened. Suffice to say there's been plenty of interest, along with a fair amount of pessimism.
Jessica Martin, I won't forget what you said and neither will the angry hordes reading this.

But back to business. Great news everybody, WE HAVE OUR FIRST BESTIMATE. If you need reminding of the question, it's on the previous blog. Heres how we did it..

Assumptions.

First, we made the assumption that the smoker in question (let's call him Vincent) smokes 20 ciggies a day.
Second, the cigarettes are Marlboro Gold king size (normal size to you and I).
Third, that 62mm of the 85mm cigarette is smoked. (Butt and letters discarded).

62mm multiplied by; 20 a day, then 365.25 a year, then 20 for 20 years.

=9.058 Kilometers

Imperially, that means that the monster cigarette would be 5.6285 miles long! Converted to feet, Vinnie's ciggie would be taller than Mount Everest at 29718.48 feet above sea level (Everest stands at 29029 feet.)

Considering that Marlboro Gold (lights) contain 6mg of Tar each, that equates to approximately 876.6g of tar inhaled over the 20 years. Staggeringly, that's more than the weight of an average adult camel's brain.

To take the Bestimate even further, assuming each cigarette takes 5 mins to blaze, it would take Vin 507 days of continuous smoking to finish. Obviously drawing the conclusion that climbing Everest is much quicker than smoking a cigarette as tall as it.

So there you have it, our first Bestimate. The first of many. Thanks Vincent, thanks Mr Patrick McCarthy and thanks Bestimateys.

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