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Bookmark or Share- Benefits of Quitting Smoking | Smoking and Tobacco Use | CDCReduces the risk of premature death and can add as much as 10 years to life expectancy. Reduces the risk for many adverse health effects, including cardiovascular diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cancer, and poor reproductive health outcomes. Benefits people already diagnosed with coronary heart disease or COPD.
- Smokers, especially those who begin young, are three times more likely ...A large, national study found that smokers faced nearly three times the risk of dying prematurely from heart disease or stroke. Risk was higher among smokers who began before age 15 compared to those who began at older ages, and the risk was highest of all for those who began smoking before age 10.
- Tobacco: Health benefits of smoking cessationAt about 50: gain 6 years of life expectancy. At about 60: gain 3 years of life expectancy. After the onset of life-threatening disease: rapid benefit, people who quit smoking after having a heart attack reduce their chances of having another heart attack by 50%.
- Tobacco-Related Mortality - CDCLife expectancy for smokers is at least 10 years shorter than for nonsmokers. 1,2 Quitting smoking before the age of 40 reduces the risk of dying from smoking-related disease by about 90%. 2 Secondhand Smoke and Death
- 21st-Century Hazards of Smoking and Benefits of Cessation in the United ...Smokers lose at least one decade of life expectancy, as compared with those who have never smoked. Cessation before the age of 40 years reduces the risk of death associated with continued...
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