Impossible to miss the message on many cigarette packets: “Smoking kills”.
Conversely, quitting smoking allows you to live longer.
We suspected it, but a new major study published in the journal NEJM Evidence confirms it.
Above all, it brings a lot of hope to former cigarette addicts.
“It corroborates what we assumed with precise figures,” points out Frédéric Le Guillou, president of the France Respiratory Health association.
Scientists from the School of Public Health at the University of Toronto (Canada) and the University of Tromsø (Norway) followed, for an average of fifteen years, 1.5 million adults in four countries (States -United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Norway).
The results are spectacular: the probability of still being alive at age 80 was almost the same among those who had never smoked (less than 100 cigarettes during their life) and among those who stopped before age 40.
In other words, giving up cigarettes before your forties allows you to hope to live as long as if you had never touched them!
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