On many cigarette packs it is impossible not to notice the inscription: “Smoking kills.” Conversely, quitting smoking allows you to live longer. We suspected this, but a large new study published in the journal NEJM Evidence confirms it. First of all, it gives great hope to former smokers. “This confirms our assumptions with precise figures,” says Frédéric Le Guillou, president of the French Association for Respiratory Health.
Scientists from the School of Public Health at the University of Toronto (Canada) and the University of Tromsø (Norway) followed 1.5 million adults in four countries (USA, UK, Canada and Norway) for an average of fifteen years. ). The results are impressive: the likelihood of being alive at age 80 was almost the same among those who had never smoked (less than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime) and among those who quit smoking before age 40. In other words, giving up cigarettes before you turn forty will allow you to hope to live as long as if you had never touched them!
Source: Le Parisien
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