Sensational discovery of British scientists: smoking shortens life!
Scientists: a woman needs to quit smoking before the age of 30
The results of the work published in the Lancet journal (Pirie et al., The 21st century hazards of smoking and benefits of stopping: a prospective study of one million women in the UK) show that people who smoke all their lives live on average 10 years less than those who have never had this a bad habit.
At the same time, smokers who have given up cigarettes by the age of 40 have an average life expectancy only a year lower than "normal", and those who quit by the age of 30 – even for a month.
(The year and month are, obviously, the conversion into visual numbers of dry and obscure data from an article in the Lancet that quitting smoking under the age of 40 allows for more than 90% reduction in the likelihood of dying prematurely; and those who quit smoking before the age of 30, the probability of early death the death rate is less than 3% compared to those who have not given up the habit, which all the Ministries of Health have been warning about for a long time.)
Health experts, however, emphasize that this study is in no way an excuse for smoking youth.
The researchers came to such unexpected conclusions based on a 15-year study of women who started smoking in the 50s and 60s of the last century, when it became fashionable.
The authors of the idea of the study decided to analyze the life expectancy of women exclusively, since they started smoking en masse much later than men.
"We have shown that if women smoke like men, then they die like men," concluded the lead researcher, Sir Richard Peto from the University of Oxford.
"More than half of the women who smoke and will continue to smoke will die from tobacco," he added. – At the same time, quitting smoking works surprisingly well. Smoking kills, quitting it works, and the sooner you quit, the better."
Smoking in numbersEvery year, more than 5 million people die from smoking-related diseases
- Tobacco smoking is considered to be the cause or possible cause of 25 diseases
- Cigarette smoke contains about 4,000 chemical compounds that can harm the human body
- 80 of these substances can lead to the development of cancer
Premature deathThe study, which involved 1.2 million women, shows that even those of them who smoked no more than 10 cigarettes a day, on average, died earlier than non-smokers.
According to the authors, exactly the same pattern is observed among men.
Experts of the British Foundation for the Fight against Lung Diseases claim that the prospects of living to old age healthy are much higher for those who quit smoking before the age of 30, however, emphasize: this does not mean that at an earlier age you can smoke as much as you want.
"Quitting smoking can be difficult – about 70% of smokers say they want to quit, so don't start hoping that if you want, you can give up cigarettes," said the head of the Penny Woods Foundation.
"It's best for your health if you don't smoke at all," she added.
Robert West, a professor at University College London, recalls that smoking has other unpleasant consequences for the body, in addition to shortening the life span, for example, earlier skin aging.
"By the age of 25, the functionality of your lungs reaches its peak and begins to decline. For most people, this is normal – by the age of 60 or 70, they still work quite well. However, if you smoked and quit, irreversible damage has already been done to the lungs, which – in combination with other age–related diseases – can significantly affect the quality of life," he added.
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