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Thought for the Day: Making the cut
Posted Mar 18th 2007 9:00AM by Jacki Donaldson
Filed under: Lung Cancer, Prevention, Research, Magazines, Thought for the Day
If you are trying to ward off cancer by making a change in your smoking habits, cutting back isn't enough. Cutting out cigarettes altogether is the only way to really protect your health.
Think about this tidbit I found in the March 2007 issue of
Woman's Day Magazine.
A 20-year-study of more than 50,000 people in Norway recently revealed that patients who smoked fewer cigarettes -- even those who cut back by half -- were just as likely as heavy smokers to suffer from early death due to cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other tobacco-related problems.Tags: back, cancer, cardiovasular, cigarettes, cut, cutting, day, death, disease, early, for, half, heavy, magazine, making, norway, problems, quitting, related, smokers, smoking, stopping, study, suffer, the, thought, tobacco, woman
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1. I pray for the day when no one has to quit smoking... because no one starts.
Love to all,
Richard Day Gore
Posted at 8:39AM on Mar 19th 2007 by richard day gore