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Cancer risk increases with the number of cigarettes smoked per day, confirms study – News-Medical.Net
Today, in advance of World No Tobacco Day, The Daffodil Centre released an Australian first study, with findings showing tobacco smoking significantly increased…
Today, in advance of World No Tobacco Day, The Daffodil Centre released an Australian first study, with findings showing tobacco smoking significantly increased the risk of 12 types of cancer and that 1-in-7 current smokers will get lung cancer in their lifetime.
The risk of cancer increased with the number of cigarettes smoked per day, and even ‘light’ smokers of 1-5 cigarettes per day had an almost 10-fold increased risk of lung cancer.
The findings were drawn from the Sax Institute’s 45 and Up…
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