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People who quit smoking, even at the ripe age of 75, could be boosting their life expectancy, according to new research.their research supports the"profoundly important assessment that quitting smoking is the single best thing people can do to enhance their life expectancy."
Their estimates suggest that people between the ages of 35 and 75, who used to smoke in the past, have added considerable time back to their life expectancy by giving up cigarettes. Compared to those who never smoked, individuals who smoked at age 35 and continued smoking throughout the remainder of their lives were predicted to lose about 9 years of life on average .
The current research agrees. Individuals who smoked at age 75 and who continued for the rest of their lives were predicted to lose about 4.4 years of life on average (nearly 50 percent of their
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