| Two new US studies examining smoking and mortality are published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The findings from one of the studies indicated that the relative risk from dying of a smoking related death has grown substantially for women and is now at a level almost identical to that of men. For men, their risk of dying has plateaued and is sustained at the high levels previously witnessed in the 1980’s. The second study, utilising data from the US National Interview Survey between 1997 and 2004, revealed that people who smoke take at least a decade off their overall life expectancy. However, the research also found that stopping before the age of 40 eliminated 90% of the overall risk of a smoking associated death. The conclusions from these American studies are almost identical to that of similar research conducted last year by researchers from Oxford. Commenting on the finding in women to the BBC, lead researcher of the Oxford Study, Prof Sir Richard Peto, said: “If women smoke like men, they die like men.” |
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Source: USA Today, 23 January 2013 Link: http://usat.ly/V91a7D |
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| Smoking could be reduced by standardised packaging of tobacco products says study | ||
| The introduction of tobacco in standard packaging would see a significant reduction in the number of adult smokers in the UK, a new study has postulated.
The researchers also believe that the number of children trying smoking for the first time would be reduced from 27% to 24%. The study was conducted by the University of Cambridge and harnessed the expert opinion of academics from the UK, Australasia and North America to try and gauge the potential impact of standardised packaging. The research is published in BMC Public Health today. |
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Source: News Medical, 24 January 2013 Link: http://bit.ly/Whxx7E |
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| Source: Medical Xpress, 23 January 2013 Link: http://bit.ly/WhzDo0 |
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