Two out of three smokers died due to tobacco

ByAaron Van Dike

Although smoking habits of tobacco are persistent, they know that "it is bad for your body", but many people keep sucking and smoking. If you continue to smoke like that, research results that show how much tobacco is bad, such as the death rate growing up to 4 times as high as non smokers,BMC MedicineIt is published in.

BMC Medicine | Full text | Tobacco smoking and all-cause mortality in a large Australian cohort study: findings from a mature epidemic with current low smoking prevalence
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/13/38


Cigarettes: A product that kills two out of three of its users | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/03/cigarettes-a-product-that-kills-two-out-of-three-of-its-users/

National University of Australia Epidemiology / Public Health Center(NCEPH) announced the results of mortality survey on tobacco smoking on 20,4953 men and women aged 45 and older living in Australia.

When the research team classified the participants into three groups of "current smoker", "former smoker", and "non-smoker", the ratio of current smokers was about the same for both males and females and that the age of the current smoker was I found it to be younger than nonsmokers. Also, when comparing nonsmokers and current smokers, the current smokers seems to have lower income and education levels and lower possession rates for voluntary health insurance. Furthermore, since the drinking rate of smokers is high, the numerical value of BMI tends to increase, and smokers are not only health hazards of cigarettes but also their usual lifestyle hurt their health.

For epidemiological surveys etc., treat one year of one subject as one unitPerson yearThere is a unit called. In the study of NCEPH, when measuring the person's age of the target, the total was 874,120 person years, but the number of deaths during the measurement period reached 5593 people. From this figure it became a "dangerous rate" such as mortality rate, and among the subjects of this time, the mortality rate of the current smoker compared with the non-smoker was 2.76 times to 2.95 times for both males and females . The death rate of former smokers compared with nonsmokers is 1.27 times to 1.39 times, and health damage caused by smoking is figured out as numbers.

ByTimothy Takemoto

In addition, when examining the mortality rate concerning "number of cigarette smokers per day", the mortality rate of "1 to 14 smokers per day" doubles as compared with nonsmokers, "25 or more per day" The rate of death of smokers has been quadrupled. Based on these findings, it is known that 2 out of 3 fatalities of Australian smokers are caused by smoking. However, even those who had been smokers for many years, compared to former smokers who quit smoking between the ages of 45 and 54, the death rate remained only 1.36 times to 1.52 times. Therefore, even if you started smoking cessation or smoking immediately now, it proved to be never too late.