In life, there are 3 categories of people… Smokers, non-smokers… And then those who smoke a little from time to time… Rumor has it that a small cigarette like That, here and there, can’t hurt. Unfortunately one to four cigarettes a day triples the risk of cardiovascular disease. Particularly in women
We all have friends and relatives in our circles who are proud to tell us that they have considerably reduced their cigarette consumption… We must encourage them, but the advice is above all “Stop smoking for good”!
The British Heart Foundation provides the answer to the question: “Is a daily cigarette dangerous. Yes or no ? »
The answer is definitive: Yes, it is dangerous… One to four cigarettes per day triples the risk of cardiovascular disease. And that’s not all, for women there is an added risk of lung cancer as soon as they smoke once during the day. Probably due to a different genetic susceptibility.
As a general rule, women smokers pay a higher price for cardiovascular diseases than men after 50, because after menopause they are no longer protected by their female hormones. These results are in line with another study which showed that 100 cigarettes in a lifetime would increase the risk of a certain form of breast cancer by 30%. We may be surprised given the low number of cigarettes needed, but it is a publication in the journal Cancer, which belongs to the American cancer society, which does not usually publish anything. Which is very worrying.
light smoker
On average, “light” smokers consume 37 cigarettes each week. It may seem like a lot, but we know that these smokers always underestimate their consumption. Most often, they are not worried about the effects of smoking on their health, precisely because they underestimate their risk: The ostrich phenomenon! But this study proves what we suspected: most light smokers put their lives at risk.
According to the Institute for Prevention and Health Education (INPES), it is estimated that 4% of French people consider themselves occasional smokers. Across the Channel, we add to this, those whom the English call “social” smokers, that is to say who smoke only in the evening or with friends, and who are over there are a little more than a million
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