Women Who Quit Smoking Can Live 10 Years Longer

Another day, another good reason to quit

A new study of over a million women is revealing what many already know but choose to ignore. Female smokers more than triple their risk of dying early compared with nonsmokers. But those who quit smoking before age 40 avoided more than 90 percent of the increased risk of premature death from cigarettes, while women who stopped even earlier — before age 30 — avoided 97 percent of the added risk. The study found that women who smoked cigarettes throughout their adult years were much more likely to die of smoking-related causes like lung cancer, heart disease and stroke. Even light smokers who smoked one to nine cigarettes per day had two times the mortality rate of nonsmokers. Smoking remains the leading causes of preventable death in both the U.S. and the U.K. (TIME)

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