{{Women who give up smoking by the age of 30 will almost completely avoid the risks of dying early from tobacco-related diseases, according to a study of more than a million women in the UK.}}<\/p>\n
The results, published in the Lancet, showed lifelong smokers died a decade earlier than those who never started.<\/p>\n
But those who stopped by 30 lost, on average, a month of life and if they stopped by 40 they died a year younger.<\/p>\n
Health experts said this was not a licence for the young to smoke.<\/p>\n
The study followed the first generation of women to start smoking during the 1950s and 60s. As women started smoking on a large scale much later than men, the impact of a lifetime of cigarettes has only just been analysed for women.<\/p>\n
“What we’ve shown is that if women smoke like men, they die like men,” said lead researcher Prof Sir Richard Peto, from Oxford University.<\/p>\n
He told the BBC: “More than half of women who smoke and keep on smoking will get killed by tobacco.<\/p>\n
“Stopping works, amazingly well actually. Smoking kills, stopping works and the earlier you stop the better.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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