08-26-2008, 01:14 AM
You've dramatically reduced your risk of smoking-related lung cancer.
Anyone who gives up smoking at any age, even a lifelong smoker aged 60, reduces their chances of developing lung cancer, and the younger they give up, the greater the reduction in risk.
Cancer Research UK says:
''A lifelong male smoker has a cumulative risk of 15.9% for developing lung cancer by age 75. For men who cease smoking at ages 60, 50, 40 and 30 years, their cumulative risk of dying from lung cancer falls to 9.9%, 6.0%, 3.0% and 1.7% respectively''
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