Link between smoking, lung cancer mortality examined
Individuals who were light-intensity smokers, or those who smoked
less than 10 cigarettes daily, had nearly nine times and 2.5 times increased
odds of lung cancer-related death and respiratory disease-related death,
respectively, compared with those who never smoked, researchers reported at the
virtual European Respiratory Society International Congress. Light-intensity
smokers also had 71% and 49% of the lung cancer and respiratory mortality risk
of those who smoked at least 20 cigarettes daily, respectively.
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