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Edited by B40tastePosh at 18-12-2024 11:57 PM
The research was by Dr Pallavi Balte and Dr Elizabeth Oelsner at Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA. Dr Balte told the virtual conference: “Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you, but it’s easy to assume that if you only smoke a little, the risks won’t be too high.
“Previous research suggests that people are cutting down on smoking, for example in the USA the proportion of smokers smoking less than ten cigarettes per day has increased from 16% to 27%. So, we wanted to study the risks to social smokers compared to people who don’t smoke and compared to heavier smokers.” They found that social smokers were 2.5 times as likely to die of respiratory disease and 8.6 times as likely to die of lung cancer, compared to non-smokers. Social smokers had around half the rate of death from respiratory disease as heavy smokers, but their rate of lung cancer death was two thirds that of heavy smokers.
Kalau nak smoke jangan sikit2, jadi heavier smoker terus, baru elok untuk kesihaten
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Post time 18-12-2024 11:54 PM
