If we consider the risk of death from smoking, then smoking women do not differ from smoking men. Using data from the National Health Survey, researchers analyzed the first generation of American women who became addicted to smoking early and smoked for several decades.
Similar studies were carried out in the 1980s, but then scientists claimed that the likelihood of death from smoking in women is negligible. A new study found that with equal addiction to smoking, women and men have an equal chance of dying due to addiction. So, since the 1980s, the probability of dying from all kinds of diseases associated with smoking, including lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, has increased by 50%.
The author of the study, Prabhata Ja, says that smoking by itself reduces the life expectancy of a person by about 10 years. But there is still the opportunity to return about 9 years of life if you overcome your bad habit before the age of 40, in extreme cases, to 44. But even if you give up cigarettes at 54, you can conquer 6 years of life from death, and at 64 - 4. That is, quitting smoking at any age is beneficial, but scientists warn that there is no such thing as a “safe” term smoking.
People who never smoked were twice as likely to live to be 80 years old than smokers.
The study examined data from the National Mortality Index, an estimated 16,000 records for people who started smoking early and died.
