WASHINGTON, June 11 – Reckon yourself a decade older than your real age if you smoke. The chances of death of a 55-year-old smoker are almost same to 65-year-old person who doesn’t smoke. These are the suggestions of newly published charts that were aimed to present some of American people’s biggest health risks.

The concept of risk is difficult to understand as it assimilates math and emotion. People are often flooded with challenging warnings of health risks.

“How big the risk is and how does it compare with other risks, these are the questions that must be addressed in useful messages about health risks.” Dr. Lisa Schwartz of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, Vt. stated.

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Washington- If women stop smoking when they are pregnant they are likely to have happy, more easygoing babies, British researchers said on Wednesday.

It was noted that babies of women who didn’t stop smoking while pregnant were significantly cranky. The researchers have the opinion that mothers, who can put in the effort to get away from the smoking habit, show more care for their offspring in other ways.

The researchers also found out that Babies born to non-smoking mothers are also more temperamental when compared to those born to mothers who quit. The researchers suggested that moms who discontinue the habit are doing something special.

It is known that tobacco affects the growth of fetus and also affects children when they inhale secondhand smoke of their mother.

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According to a study that was recently conducted involving middle aged and older aged citizens of Norfolk in the United Kingdom, the average lifespan can be increased by as many as ten years by abstaining from smoking, being active, eating vegetables and fruits and moderating alcohol intake, when compared to individuals who do not do any of these things.

This study was published in an online open access journal called the Public Library of Science Medicine, regularly referred to as PLoS Medicine. The purpose of the study was to show the public and professionals in the health industry that healthy behaviors have a clear cut impact on longevity. This is because a lot of information currently available is contradictory or confusing in nature. Nobody is exactly sure what makes a healthy diet, or how much is enough exercise, or how much alcohol is harmful. While there is plenty of research on each of these individual activities, there is very little information pertaining to the combined effects of these actions.

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People who are taking at least four servings of green salad every week and undertaking gardening once or twice a week have a reduced risk for developing lung cancer, regardless of whether or not they are smokers.

Dr. Michele Forman and his colleague research team presented the findings of this research study in the recently held ‘American Association for Cancer Research’s Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research conference’ in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Dr.Michele Forman and colleagues from the ‘MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas’, examined data from an ongoing case-control study to develop separate epidemiologic risk assessment models for lung cancer in current, former, and never smokers.

Potential risk factors causing lung cancer included exposure to second-hand smoke and to dust; a cancer related family history, a history of respiratory disease in the index patient, and history of smoking. This model however revolves around certain limitations demonstrating modest discriminatory power.

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White women in their pre-menopause phase of life have double the risk for breast cancer if they are smokers. A recent case-control study revealed that it is because of the ‘BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene-mutation’.

Results of the study and the investigation report have been published in the journal “Breast Cancer Research and Treatment”. This report established the fact that the women who were smoking for last five or more five pack-years have twice the risk as non-smokers to have breast cancer.

Researchers are of the view that if these findings are confirmed, it will also provide a solution for the ‘mutation carriers’ in order to reduce the risk for developing the breast cancer.

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