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New research shows smokers can expect to die much earlier than their non-smoking friends, if they aren't able to quit the addiction early in life. And women appear to be particularly vulnerable.
Lipstick can't brighten the latest research on smoking's effect on women. A new study from the American Cancer Society analyzed mortality trends among more than 2-million smokers for the past 50 years.
"The rates of deaths for both lung cancer and chronic lung disease and in fact from all causes have increased substantially in female smokers," said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, with the American Cancer Society.
What's more, the research found both male and female smokers can expect to die a full decade earlier than their friends who've never smoked. Similar studies done decades earlier -- in the 60s and 70s -- didn't indicate such a huge impact on women.
According to Dr. Tim McAfee, with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "it looked like the effects on women weren't as bad as in men, and that was probably because women were just starting to smoke in large numbers, and they didn't smoke as heavily."
Experts also blame so-called "light" cigarettes favored among some women -- which may have caused smokers to inhale more deeply to get their nicotine fix. "They're getting more of that smoke into their lungs, and that smoke has a bad effect," said Dr. Lichtenfeld.
Because researchers also had enough data on quit attempts, they were able to find some good news. Dr. McAfee says, "if somebody quits before the age of 40 they gain a lot of that back, they gain almost a decade of life, which is incredible."
http://www.ky3.com/news/ky3-new-res...-full-decade-of-life-20130125,0,3705118.story
Lipstick can't brighten the latest research on smoking's effect on women. A new study from the American Cancer Society analyzed mortality trends among more than 2-million smokers for the past 50 years.
"The rates of deaths for both lung cancer and chronic lung disease and in fact from all causes have increased substantially in female smokers," said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, with the American Cancer Society.
What's more, the research found both male and female smokers can expect to die a full decade earlier than their friends who've never smoked. Similar studies done decades earlier -- in the 60s and 70s -- didn't indicate such a huge impact on women.
According to Dr. Tim McAfee, with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "it looked like the effects on women weren't as bad as in men, and that was probably because women were just starting to smoke in large numbers, and they didn't smoke as heavily."
Experts also blame so-called "light" cigarettes favored among some women -- which may have caused smokers to inhale more deeply to get their nicotine fix. "They're getting more of that smoke into their lungs, and that smoke has a bad effect," said Dr. Lichtenfeld.
Because researchers also had enough data on quit attempts, they were able to find some good news. Dr. McAfee says, "if somebody quits before the age of 40 they gain a lot of that back, they gain almost a decade of life, which is incredible."
http://www.ky3.com/news/ky3-new-res...-full-decade-of-life-20130125,0,3705118.story
