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30/10/2012
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Search over 1 million women suggests that those who leave cigarette have 97% less risk of premature death
Women who leave cigarette before the age of 30 have 97% less risk of premature death from diseases caused by addiction, according to research conducted at the University of Oxford, UK.
The study shows that the later the woman quit smoking, however, the lower the rate of reversion. The results also suggest that women who quit at age 30 gain 10 more years of life.
Between 1996 and 2001, the project team Million Woman Study, gathered 1.3 million women who were between 50 and 65 years at the time of study entry.
Early in the project, 20% of women smoked, 28% had left the cigarette and 52% were nonsmokers. Each was followed for a period of 12 years.
Analysis conducted three years after the start of the research showed that smokers were almost three times more likely to die over the next nine years compared to nonsmokers.
According to the researchers, this means that two thirds of all deaths of women smokers in the house from 50 to 70 years are caused by smoking-related diseases such as lung cancer, chronic lung disease, heart disease or stroke. Throughout the survey, 66 000 participants died.
The results showed that women who leave cigarette in middle age earn, on average, 10 more years of life.
The team points out that the main conclusions are that the risks of smoking for women are higher than previous studies have suggested, but also that quitting smoking has greater benefits than previously thought.
Source: R7 News
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