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September 22, 2005
Bad for you
The BBC News is running an article about the dangers of smoking even a little bit.
Apparently earlier studies didn't find significant health risks from "light" smoking (up to half a pack of cigarettes a day). The study in question, lasting from 1970 to 2002, did however find some nasty results for light smokers:
Among women, smoking one to four cigarettes daily increased the chance of dying from lung cancer almost five times.Men who smoked this amount were almost three times as likely to be killed by lung cancer.
Nathalie and I are lucky not to be smokers. It's already tough for smokers to stop. Seeing that cutting back won't save you, that it's really all or nothing, must make it that much harder.
Posted by Mark at September 22, 2005 09:23 PM
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