No, there is no safety threshold for smoking. A new study from the National Cancer Institute shows that people who smoked an average of one cigarette per day had a 64% higher risk of dying early compared to non-smokers. The same study indicates that smokers who burned between 1 and 10 cigarettes per day had an 87% higher risk.
When researchers looked at the causes of these early deaths, they found a predominance of lung cancer. People who smoked an average of one cigarette per day over their lifetime were 9 times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers. And among people who smoked between 1 and 10 cigarettes a day, the risk of dying from lung cancer was almost 12 times that of non-smokers.
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By studying other causes of death, researchers at the National Cancer Institute found that people who smoked between 1 and 10 cigarettes per day were 6 times more likely to die from respiratory diseases than non-smokers and about one. and a half times the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease.
The results of this study were published in the Jama Internal medicine.
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