2024-02-16 14:19:56
By Cécile Thibert
Published on 02/15/2024 at 2:00 p.m., Updated yesterday at 3:19 p.m.
Smoking is involved in the development of 17 types of cancer and in 80% of cases of lung cancer. Andrey Popov / stock.adobe.com
DECRYPTION – It’s never too late to put out your last cigarette. But making this decision before the age of 40 almost allows you to reset the counters to zero.
Quitting smoking is a very good thing from every point of view, that’s indisputable. But to what extent can the body “forget” the harms of smoked cigarettes and reset the counters? A vast study just published in the scientific journal NEJM Records sheds new light: people who stop smoking before entering their forties can hope to live as long as those who have never smoked, even if the stigma of smoking on the body is not completely erased. A new reason to try to overcome this difficult milestone as soon as possible.
“It is a study of good quality and international scope which confirms what we already knew”, underlines Frédéric de Bels, head of the prevention department at the National Cancer Institute. To carry out this work, researchers analyzed the health data of nearly 1.5 million people followed for 15 years, residing in four countries (the United States…
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