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No safe limit to smoking

25-Jan-2018

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One cigarette a day increases chance of developing heart disease by 50%.

Likewise a 30% increase for having a stroke.

One cigarette a day still has half the risks of 20 a day.

Cardiovascular disease, not cancer, is the greatest mortality risk for smoking.

Analysis of 141 studies, published in the BMJ.

COMMENT: this should be a wake up call to social smokers

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Allan Hackshaw

Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics at UCL.

Paul Aveyard

Professor in Behavioural Medicine at University of Oxford.

The BMJ

Publisher of more than 70 medical and allied science journals

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