DRAFT v0.2 — provisional calibration values pending editorial review. Not medical advice.
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Quit this first

Pick two behaviors. The ruler shows which one has the larger expected daily cost—and how certain that ordering really is.

Measured result

Quit “Sugar-sweetened beverages — 2 cans/day” first — you'd recover about 29.5 more minutes of life per day than quitting “Drinking from plastic water bottles — daily”.

Life-minutes rulerexpected min lost / day
0.11101001000
ASugar-sweetened beverages — 2 cans/day30
BDrinking from plastic water bottles — daily0.5
lower expected costlog scalehigher expected cost
ADiet & MetabolicUnderhyped

Sugar-sweetened beverages — 2 cans/day

2×12 oz sugared soda daily

Central
30 min/day
Confidence band
10–60
Annualized
≈ 7.6 days/year
Microlives
≈ 1 / day
Ladder position
#22 of 131
Evidence
Grade B

Reversibility: Metabolic markers improve in weeks–months

BFeared but Low-RiskOverhyped

Drinking from plastic water bottles — daily

Typical consumer use

Central
0.5 min/day
Confidence band
0–5
Annualized
≈ 0.1 days/year
Microlives
≈ 0.0 / day
Ladder position
#91 of 131
Evidence
Grade D

Reversibility: —

Robust: Bands don’t overlap — this ordering is robust.

Trust this comparison to the weaker of the two evidence grades: D.

Full-ladder context: A ranks #22 and B ranks #91 among 131 comparable daily exposures.