Learn About Your Risk from Smoking: How it Works & About the Data
Everyone has heard that smoking cigarettes is unhealthy, but few people really know how big these health effects are. This Web page allows smokers to get personalized information about their own risk. The information refers specifically to people who:
Nonsmokers can also see the risks that smokers face. The data used here were provided by Michael Thun and Jane Henley of the American Cancer Society and come from a very large study that followed over a million smokers for 6 years. Risk data are available for people who are at least 30 years old. The earliest quit age is also 30. What You'll See
The numbers represent the number of people out of a group of 10,000 smokers like you who will have died by each age. You can also choose to view another graph that shows your combined risk of dying from all causes (cancer, heart disease, accidents, pneumonia, etc.). |
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Reference: Thun, M. J., Myers, D. G., Day-Lally, C., Namboodiri, M. M., Calle, E. E., Flanders, W. D., et al. (1997). Age and the exposure-response relationships between cigarette smoking and premature death. In Smoking and tobacco control monograph 8: Changes in cigarette-related disease risks and their implications for prevention and control (pp. 383-475). Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute..