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This isn't really true. Most of the death from smoking comes from other lung & heart problems, not cancer. As such even if you smoke for many decades and quit
by martinald 3y ago
This isn't really true. Most of the death from smoking comes from other lung & heart problems, not cancer.
As such even if you smoke for many decades and quit your risk decreases dramatically pretty quickly, even within days.
- patmcc 3y agoQuite an interesting chart near the bottom of this page - https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/quit_smoking/how_to_quit/benefits/index.htm https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/quit_smoking/how_to_quit/benefit... - doesn't quantify everything, unfortunately, but yeah even after a year the "risk of heart attack drops sharply". Interesting.
- pfdietz 3y agoAnd even cancer is getting more treatable these days. Lung cancer is no longer an automatic death sentence (although it often does still kill.)