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Even One Cigarette A Day Can Still Kill You, Study Finds

January 27, 2018 00:45·
Smoking Just One Cigarette a Day Can Kill You, Says New Heart Disease Study

Smoking Just One Cigarette a Day Can Kill You, Says New Heart Disease Study

The team analyzed 141 previously published studies conducted between 1946 and 2015, which included data from millions of men and women.

The findings challenge a widely held view that smoking just a few cigarettes per day is "relatively safe". A large new study found that smoking even just one cigarette a day increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. Experts say this shows there is no safe level of smoking.

In a report in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), a smoker who had one cigarette daily was 50 percent more likely to suffer from heart disease and 30 percent more likely to have a stroke than someone who never smoked before.

One in every three deaths from cardiovascular disease is caused by smoking, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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"These lighter-smoking young adults frequently do not even consider themselves smokers", she said, but they are still at "risk of developing coronary heart disease from smoking even a small amount of cigarettes".

When the researchers focused on studies that controlled for several other risk factors, they found that smoking just one cigarette a day still more than doubled women's risk of heart disease. Among women, the risk of heart disease among one-per-day smokers was increased by 119 percent and the risk of stroke by 46 percent compared to nonsmokers. "But there are also biological mechanisms that help explain the unexpectedly high risk associated with a low level of smoking", they add.

"Any assumption that smoking less protects against heart disease or stroke has been dispelled", notes Kenneth Johnson, adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada.

The study concludes that the only way to reduce the risk of smoking's top two side-effects, heart disease and stroke, was to quit completely or switch to nicotine replacement treatments.

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