If you wouldn't classify yourself as a smoker, but you still enjoy the occasional cigarette, too fucking bad! You'll still die early, suggests a recent study.
Government researchers reported Monday that even super light smoking—like, we're talking just one cigarette a day—can vastly increase your risk of dying early.
"The results of this study support health warnings that there is no safe level of exposure to tobacco smoke," said study leader Maki Inoue-Choi, according to NBC News. "Together, these findings indicate that smoking even a small number of cigarettes per day has substantial negative health effects and provide further evidence that smoking cessation benefits all smokers, regardless of how few cigarettes they smoke."
The researchers analysed nearly 300,000 people who were at an average age of 71. The study found that people who claimed to smoke an average than less than one cigarette a day—I repeat, less than one—had a 64 percent higher risk of dying early than nonsmokers. In comparison, people who smoked up to half a pack a day had 87 percent higher risk of dying early.
"Low-intensity smoking over the lifetime was associated with a significantly higher risk of all-cause mortality, including deaths from lung cancer and cardiovascular disease," the researchers wrote, adding that the sooner subjects quit, the less of a risk.
Welp.
(H/T NBC News)
