How Smoke Cessation Before the Age of 40 can avoid 90% of Excess Risk of Cancer Death

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month - Research done by the American Cancer Society shows that "A new study finds that smokers are at a higher risk – three times more likely – to die of cancer than individuals that have never smoked. Data show that those who started to smoke at earlier ages had even greater likelihood of dying from cancer. Those who began at the youngest ages (before age 10 years) had four times the cancer mortality rates in adulthood of those who had never smoked. However, individuals who quit smoking avoided most of this excess risk, especially those who quit at younger ages. The study, appearing in JAMA Oncology, is one of the largest studies on smoking in the United States population using nationally representative data." Full article here.