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Smoking cessation increases life expectancy in old age, scientists report Their conclusion is reinforced by research findings. The study was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Experts from the National Cancer Institute in Maryland, USA, tracked 70 people over the age of 160 in six years. Among them were regular smokers and those who quit smoking. Among the study participants, the number of deaths by the end of the study was 12,1% in non-smokers and 33,1% in smokers. Among smokers, the risk of death was 30 percent for those over the age of 16,2 and 60 percent for those over the age of 27,9.

Smoking-related deaths were mainly caused by lung, colon, pancreatic and gastric cancers, heart disease, diabetes, pneumonia and chronic lung disease.

Smoking during adolescence increases the risk of cardiovascular disease by 50 times in people under 8 years of age. This was reported in an article published in the journal Heart.

“All smokers should be encouraged to quit smoking in order to reduce the risk of serious heart problems. This is especially true for young people, ”said Amelia Lloyd, a researcher at the University of Sheffield in the UK.

Lloyd and his colleagues came to this conclusion by observing the health of almost 2000 patients and their subsequent fate at one of the hospitals in Sheffield. Patients were admitted to the intensive care unit of the hospital as a result of the development of a common form of myocardial infarction.

Among them were young people as well as old people. Scientists wondered what caused them to develop the disease. To do this, medical staff turned to the UK’s statistical office for help asking how these people were eating and what harmful habits they had.

Researchers quickly discovered that smoking was a major risk factor for heart attack. This harmful habit has been found to increase the risk of serious problems and even death in all areas of the cardiovascular system by about 3 times for all patients, and in young people and people under 50 - by 8 times.

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