Feb 21
Good news for older people who smoke: If you quit smoking, you will reap the benefits in a fairly short period of time.
A new study by researchers at the German Cancer Research Center of 8,807 people between 50 and 74 found that a person slashes their risk of heart attack and stroke by more than 40 percent within the first five years after the last cigarette.
“We were able to show that the risk of smokers for cardiovascular diseases is more than twice that of non-smokers,” Professor Hermann Brenner said in a press release. “However, former smokers are affected at almost the same low rate as people of the same age who never smoked.
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