A major new study of smoking and death has banged more nails into the coffin of cigarette smoking, though chances are it will do little to persuade any of the 42 million American smokers to quit.
If current smokers have not already responded to the well-established links between smoking and 21 diseases that together cause 480,000 deaths each year, adding another five diseases and 60,000 deaths to this grisly total is unlikely to make a difference —at least not by itself.
“Health effects are not enough to decrease smoking rates,” said Brian D. Carter, public health specialist with the American Cancer Society and lead author of the new study.
[For more of this story, written by Jane Brody, go to http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/...known-dangers-widen/]
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