Smoking Shaves 11 Years Off Women's Lives

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Smoking Shaves 11 Years Off Women's Lives

                                                                                                                                          Smoking shortens the life expectancy of women by over a decade, according to a new study in the Lancet.
British researchers studied the smoking habits of nearly 1.2 million women born around 1940, who were recruited around the turn of the millennium. They were followed for 12 years.
At ages 50 to 80 years, women who smoked had triple the annual mortality rate of women who never smoked. Even women who smoked fewer than 10 cigarettes per day faced a doubling of mortality risk.
Smoking throughout adulthood reduced the life span of women by roughly 11 years. Women who stopped smoking by age 45 avoided about 90% of the excess lung-cancer and all-cause mortality. Stopping smoking by age 35 avoided about 97% of this risk.