Warning to Women: Smoking Reduce Allowable Living 11 Years

We all know that smoking can interfere with health. Women smokers greater risk of stroke, cataracts, osteoporosis, premature menopose, menstrual problems, and some other cancers.

Ssebuah new study suggests smoking take about 11 years to the life of women. Tim McAfee, director of the Office on Smoking at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say smoking as the number one cause of death in America. "It has been noted long ago that everyone knows smoking is not good for you," he told the New York Times.

But what made ​​him surprised to read an article in The New England Journal of Medicine study analyzed data from 113 752 women and 88 496 men who were interviewed between 1997 and 2004 for the United Stated National Health Interview Survey.

Studies look at the numbers and causes of death in late 2006, and found people aged 25 years or older who smoke are three times more likely to experience death then, compared to participants who had never smoked. As many as 60 percent of smokers who die suffer from diseases related to smoking. Women's risk of death more than previously assumed.

But the study also notes those who quit smoking before age 35, lived 10 years longer than those who did not quit. Although they had to wait until closer to the age of 45 years to feel the benefits. They live nine years longer.