Do you light up a cigarette only on occasion? Only do it during special occasions or on the weekend? Well new research shows that even a little smoking could kill you. Just one cigarette a day is enough to greatly increase the risk of dying young, so put out the cigarettes today.
Key Takeaways:
- Even extremely light smoking — as little as one cigarette a day — can greatly increase someone’s risk of dying early, government researchers reported Monday.
- Even people who said they smoked an average of less than one cigarette a day had a 64 percent higher risk of dying early than nonsmokers, the researchers found.
- Globally, tobacco kills about 6 million people a year from cancer, heart disease, lung disease and other illnesses.
“Even people who said they smoked an average of less than one cigarette a day had a 64 percent higher risk of dying early than nonsmokers, the researchers found.”