According to the publication in the prestigious
medical journal, The Lancet, women who give up smoking by the age of 30 almost
completely avoid the risk of dying early from tobacco-related diseases, such
as: breast, lung, and skin cancer.
The researchers tracked the first generation of
women who started to smoke between the 50’s and 60’s. The scientific team was not worried about the
amount of cigarettes that those women smoked, but rather “the time” spent
smoking.
“What we’ve shown is that if women some like
men, they will die like men”, said the lead researcher Professor Sir Richard
Peto, from Oxford University.
The records from the study exposed that over
1.2 million women showed that even those who smoked fewer than 10 cigarettes a
day were more likely to die sooner. Regarding the British Lung Foundation data, the
perspectives for long-term health were much better if people stopped smoking
before the thirties, which doesn’t mean that this is a license to smoke as much
as you want in you 20’s.
The UK’s administration, specifically the Department
of Health, is taking part of this fight against this unhealthy habit by
creating a campaign called “Stopober”, the UK’s first ever mass event to stop
smoking.
What about you? If you are a smoker, are you
going to be able to stop smoking before your thirties? Have you already tried
to give up smoking and you couldn’t?
Find attached the link in which the Dr Peter
Mackareth, clinical lead for smoking cessation for the Christie NHS Foundation
Trust, expands on the topic: giving up smoking before the thirties.
Does it mean that it is not too late for my 26 year-old sister? As far as I remember, she became addicted to cigarrettes in her late 10's and she even smoked very often during her second pregnancy--something that, to my own conceit (and probably some other people's), is a disgusting situation; my nephew was born healthy nevertheless. Giving up smoking should not be such a big deal; I started when I was 14 and I quit when I entered college. It was not so hard and I am aware of the benefits that quitting smoking can bring not only to the former smoker, but also the people that surround them. It has been proven that passive smokers--the ones who inhale the smoke withoout being actually smoking--can have similar (or sometimes worse) effects as those who keep their cigarrettes in their mouths.
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