Even smoking less than 1 cigarette a day increases earlier death risk by 64%

MilesMorales1

People who consistently smoked an average of less than one cigarette per day over their lifetime had a 64 percent higher risk of earlier death than never smokers, and those who smoked between one and 10 cigarettes a day had an 87 percent higher risk of earlier death than never smokers, according to a new study from researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Risks were lower among former low-intensity smokers compared to those who were still smokers, and risk fell with earlier age at quitting. The results of the study were reported Dec. 5, 2016, in JAMA Internal Medicine. NCI is part of the National Institutes of Health.

When researchers looked at specific causes of death among study participants, a particularly strong association was observed for lung cancer mortality. Those who consistently averaged less than one cigarette per day over their lifetime had nine times the risk of dying from lung cancer than never smokers. Among people who smoked between one and 10 cigarettes per day, the risk of dying from lung cancer was nearly 12 times higher than that of never smokers.

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Quit 4 months now. Don't miss it at all once I got over the 2 week hump. Feel a million times better for it.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Smoking is gross. All those wrinkles!

frozenfrozen

if someone smoked less than half a cigarette a day they deserve to die for being such a tight bastard

Richard Hillman

Can't afford to live to I am old so I am better off spending it on fags

Temptamperu

Who wants to live forever? Smoke em if you got em boys!

The_Valeyard

So your saying smoke two a day and cut chance of death by half?

Mr. FoggPatches

I smoke more than 1 a day, so should be grand.

soups05

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jtpf8N5IDE&ab_channel=QueenOfficial

Capt'n Midnight

frozenfrozen wrote: »

if someone smoked less than half a cigarette a day they deserve to die for being such a tight bastard

Maybe if you started smoking one at 23:59 every second day ?

Ficheall

Smoking is bad for you?? :eek: Who knew....

Article here: http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2588812
Of 290,000 participants, only 160 in their study had consistently smoked 1 cigarette or less per day since they started smoking. If you were thick enough to not know by now that smoking is bad for you, I don't see much in this study that would give any extra cause for concern.

Goya

Ficheall wrote: »

Smoking is bad for you?? :eek: Who knew....

Article here: http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2588812
Of 290,000 participants, only 160 in their study had consistently smoked 1 cigarette or less per day since they started smoking. If you were thick enough to not know by now that smoking is bad for you, I don't see much in this study that would give any extra cause for concern.

Obviously everyone knows smoking is bad for you. Nobody said otherwise. The point of note is how high risk even just the odd cigarette (like, one every second day) is, according to this study - it's not THAT much lower than ten a day.

Calibos

if the average non smoker has a 10% chance of an early death. Smoking one fag a day raising his chances or an early death by 64% means the fag a day smoker has about a 15% chance of an early death. That 64% isn't the 64% figure you think it is.

SEPT 23 1989

One a day?

Wimps

Widdershins

Living in a city can be as harmful as a daily smoking habit, thanks to the air pollution
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/aug/28/environment.medicineandhealth

Mr. FoggPatches

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Smoking is gross. All those wrinkles!

Can botox wrinkle?