{"id":1070,"date":"2018-01-26T03:55:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T03:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klinikong.com\/wp\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2018-01-26T03:55:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T03:55:18","slug":"even-one-cigarette-a-day-can-still-kill-you-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/26\/even-one-cigarette-a-day-can-still-kill-you-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Even one cigarette a day can still kill you, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you think having just one\u00a0<span class=\"link\">cigarette<\/span>\u00a0a day won&#8217;t do any harm, you&#8217;re wrong. British researchers say lighting up just once a day was linked to a much higher risk of\u00a0<span class=\"link\">heart disease<\/span>\u00a0and stroke than might be expected.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line: &#8220;No safe level of smoking exists for cardiovascular disease,&#8221; wrote the team led by Allan Hacksaw, of UCL Cancer Institute at University College, London.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Smokers should quit instead of cutting down, using appropriate cessation aids if needed, to significantly reduce their risk,&#8221; the study authors said.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s a warning to the young that even so-called &#8220;light&#8221; smoking carries a heavy price, one expert said.<\/p>\n<p>Young adults &#8220;often smoke lesser amounts than older adults,&#8221; noted Patricia Folan, who directs the Center for Tobacco Control at Northwell Health, in Great Neck, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/even-one-cigarette-a-day-can-still-kill-you-study\/\">Click here<\/a> for the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think having just one\u00a0cigarette\u00a0a day won&#8217;t do any harm, you&#8217;re wrong. British researchers say lighting up just once a day was linked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[76,176,284,310],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body","tag-cigarette","tag-heart-disease","tag-risk","tag-stroke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}