We investigate a possible background of the type 0 c ! c ÿ to the CLEO c lifetime measurement. This decay mode may lead to an overestimate of the c decay length and, therefore, increase the measured c lifetime. The branching ratio ÿ 0 c ! c ÿ =ÿ 0 c ! ÿ is analyzed in the framework of the pole model and the modified current algebra. We find that the 0 c ! c ÿ decay mode could not generate a substantial systematic error in the c lifetime measurement.The lifetime measurements of charmed baryons are well known [1] to be very important in estimating and disentangling the different preasymptotic effects in the decays of charmed hadrons. The preasymptotic effects [2], like the inclusion of soft degrees of freedom (light quarks, gluons) generate nonperturbative power corrections, e.g., the destructive and/or constructive Pauli interference, and the W-exchange contribution, producing the diversity of lifetimes of charmed mesons [3][4][5] and baryons [6,7], which would, otherwise, be all equal in the asymptotic limit of infinitely heavy quark mass 1 .Inclusive hadronic decay rates and lifetimes were calculated a long time ago [3-7] by summing over all possible channels and integrating over some range of energies. A ''practical'' version of the OPE is used in calculations, i.e., it is assumed that the coefficient functions can be found perturbatively and all nonperturbative effects reside in matrix elements. In real world, however, there are nonperturbative effects even at short distances, and the matrix elements are subject to perturbative corrections too.