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Anyone who starts smoking at a young age may also die early

Smoking and want to quit, but not right for you now?

New research shows that you have up to the age of 40. After that, your chances of dying from heart disease and stroke increase.

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Tuesday, 10 November 2020, 08:34

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From a young age we know that cigarette smoking is harmful to health, but this does not prevent many teenagers from starting to smoke at a very early age.

Now a new study has found that starting smoking early in life can increase the chances of dying young.

But there is also good news - those who manage to quit reduce the risk considerably, and the younger they are, the better, said the authors of the study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA).

The researchers collected data between 1997 and 2014, from 424,793 adults in the U.S., aged 25 to 74. Nearly 400,000 people were included in the study and were grouped by smoking history, based on the age at which they first started, or the age at which they last smoked. 58 percent of the world We did not smoke, 23 percent were former smokers, and 19 percent smoked in the present.Among the current smokers, 2 percent started smoking before age 10, and 19 percent started smoking between the ages of 10 and 14.

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When the researchers analyzed the results of those who stopped smoking, they found that those who stopped between the ages of 15 and 34 had a risk of dying from heart disease or stroke similar to people who do not smoke at all.

On the other hand, those who stopped smoking in the 35-44 age group were at a 20 percent higher risk of death from heart disease or stroke, those who stopped smoking in the 45-54 age range were at a high risk - 60 percent, and in the 55-64 age range the risk was high in 70 percent.

Those who smoked at present were at almost three times the risk of dying from a stroke or heart disease.

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In addition, the researchers clarified that those who quit smoking by the age of 40 can reduce the risk of premature death from cardiovascular disease by 90 percent.

At the end of the study, 4,479 people died of heart disease or stroke before age 75.

You do not have much time to stop.

A woman extinguishes a cigarette in an ashtray (Photo: shutterstock)

"Next-generation smoking can save lives, but we must also emphasize that quitting smoking can save lives now and in the years to come," said lead author Dr Blake Thomson of Oxford University in the UK. the world's largest. "

according to the US study, Currently, there are about 25 million people who smoke every day, including 5 million who became regular smokers before age 15. in Israel the situation is not brilliant as well.

In June 2019, a survey was published by the Government Advertising Bureau and the Geocartography Institute conducted among adolescents on the use and perceptions regarding e-cigarettes.

The report examined 819 children, of whom 509 were Jews and 310 Arabs.

The survey found that about one-fifth of teens (12-18) smoke, at a higher rate among boys than among girls.

Among smokers, about half of smokers of a pack of tobacco cigarettes and a similar rate report the use of e-cigarettes.

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