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QUITTING SMOKING REDUCES RISK OF LUNG CANCER MORTALITY BY 70 PERCENT
Giving up smoking is highly effective in preventing death from
lung cancer and can reduce the risk of dying from the disease by
up to 70%. In addition, new research from the Asia-Pacific region
confirms that cigarette smoking substantially increases the risk
of dying from lung cancer in both Australia/New Zealand (ANZ)
and Asia, and importantly highlights the continuing popularity
of cigarette smoking across large parts of Asia, including
China, where the harmful effects of smoking are still not widely
appreciated.
In the study of 500,000 adults, published in the American
Journal of Epidemiology, the Asia-Pacific Cohort Studies
Collaboration (APCSC) shows that the risks of dying from lung
cancer were about twenty times higher among women who smoke
compared with male smokers, a worrying finding given the
increasing trend for women to take up the habit in many
countries.
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