We are all aware that smoking will lead to serious disease. Once again increase interest rates seem to be young people, as well as young adults, therefore, it is important to consider recent evidence that, reexamines the risk of serious health risk smokers.
In a recent article by Dr. Kenfield and her colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health (American Medical Association, Vol 299, 2037, 2008) looked at more than 12,000 women who died, who was guided by the National Nurses Health Study , has been in existence, and since 1976, there is a participation of more than 120,000 women registered nurses in the United States. Nurses in these women who are smokers have increased risk of death of any cause, the risk is 281% higher than non-smokers. These results detiled for women most likely to be exactly the same as men.
Importantly, if a look has been described as cancer and smoking (including lung cancer and bladder cancer, cervical cancer, esophageal cancer, kidney, tongue, mouth, throat, pancreas, stomach, or even acute leukemia), in the smoking the risk is 725%, compared to non-smokers. What is even more surprising is the discovery, if we look at all the other cancers are currently considered unrelated to smoking, may be one of those who died of cancer is 158 percent of the smokers compared to nurses who do not smoke . Smoking is bad for any cancer, only some kinds of difference (such as lung cancer) than others!
Who started smoking at an earlier age for women of course have a higher mortality rate, and even a higher mortality rate of respiratory disease (emphysema or pneumonia).
An important result is that the excess risk of death, cardiovascular disease due to rapidly disappear after cessation of smoking. However, respiratory conditions and cancer mortality for 20 years will drop to about non-smokers.
These results are very important to everyone. Of their most important thing is do not start smoking and to try to stop smoking, to reduce the excess risk of death from cardiovascular disease, respiratory diseases and cancer. As the mortality rate began to decline immediately after quitting, contact your doctor, try to use all available help to reduce smoking, and set a good example for your family, not to smoke. Greater amount of suffering and mortality is much higher emphasis on how important it is, we should set a good example for our children and grandchildren, and not to smoke.
Now, more and more drugs, can help smokers quit. The best place to start is your own doctor's office would only say: "Please help me to stop." American Cancer Society has a special telephone line to help patients quit smoking, you can visit from the line through its website www.cancer.com Or call 2345 the 800 ACS.
