As Harmful as Smoking: Researchers Warn About a Habit that Can Shorten Life as Much as Tobacco

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There are habits that we assume as harmful and others that we continue to treat as a lesser evil. Sleeping little usually enters this second group. The problem is that the weariness of sleeplessness accumulates and passes bill in the long term. A recent analysis with data from millions of people has put figures to something that has been intuited for a long time: bad sleep is associated with a reduction in life expectancy comparable to that of t…