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...course, if you don't smoke, don't start. If you do smoke, quit. Now is the best time...
...diagnosis. Perhaps more distressing to the 90 million--plus smokers and former smokers out there was that Jennings swore off tobacco 20 years ago and was struck by the disease all the same. It's true that he had resumed smoking after the terrorist attacks in 2001, but he quit again. Can that first puff years ago start a fatal cascade of lung damage that can never be reversed? The answer...
Recently, British researchers wanted to see if there was a point of no return, at which it doesn't matter whether you quit. Their conclusion, published in BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) last year: timing is everything. The sooner you quit, the more damage you undo. A smoker who quits at age 50 reduces the risk of lung disease by half. Quitting by age 30 eliminates nearly all the smoking-related risk...
...always reduce your risk if you quit smoking. If you're 50 years old and you've been a lifelong smoker and you quit smoking today, you reduce your risk by half. If you're 30 years old and a lifelong smoker, you can almost completely eliminate your risk of lung cancer by quitting...
...There's some increased risk compared to the general population, if you have smoked. But, if you quit at the age of 30, it's almost a negligible increased risk...