{"id":298872,"date":"2026-02-19T09:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/298872\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:01:18","slug":"researchers-have-heavy-news-for-light-smokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/298872\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers have heavy news for \u2018light\u2019 smokers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smoking as few as two to five cigarettes a day may more than double your risk for serious health problems compared with not smoking at all, according to researchers from the American Heart Association\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/professional.heart.org\/en\/research-programs\/atrac\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at data from more than 320,000 adults followed for 20 years, the researchers also found that \u201clight smokers\u201d had a 60% increased risk of death from any cause compared with participants who were nonsmokers.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the study revealed that it can take 30-plus years after quitting smoking to get back to baseline health after quitting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe message here is clear \u2013 don\u2019t smoke \u2013 and for those who do, quit early in life and strive to quit entirely versus smoking less, because even occasional use of tobacco has substantial health consequences,\u201d said Stacey E. Rosen, volunteer president of the AHA and senior vice president of women\u2019s health and executive director of the Katz Institute for Women\u2019s Health of Northwell Health in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The study was <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosmedicine\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pmed.1004561\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal PLOS Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smoking as few as two to five cigarettes a day may more than double your risk for serious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[818,29176,163,11162,823,85,46,13672,22914],"class_list":{"0":"post-298872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-american-heart-association","9":"tag-cardiovascular-risk","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-heart-attacks","12":"tag-heart-disease","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-smoking","16":"tag-tobacco"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}