Giving up smoking can reduce the risk of dying from the disease by up to 70 percent, new research published in the American Journal of Epidemiology this week shows.
The research by the Asia Pacific Studies Collaboration (APCSC) confirms that cigarette smoking substantially increases the risk of dying from lung cancer in both Australia/New Zealand (ANZ) and Asia, and importantly highlights the continuing popularity of cigarette smoking across large parts of Asia, including China, where the harmful effects of smoking are still not widely appreciated.
The study of 500,000 adults also shows that the risks of dying from lung cancer were about 20 times higher among women who smoke compared with male smokers, a worrying finding given the increasing trend for women to take up the habit in many countries.
One of the paper's authors is Professor Konrad Jamrozik, from UQ's School of Population Health.
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