30-year follow-up study: 'Tremendous' impact of smoking on mortality and cardiovascular disease
Friday, May 8, 2009 - 08:56
in Health & Medicine
Non-smokers live longer and have less cardiovascular disease than those who smoke, according to a 30-year follow-up study of 54,000 men and women in Norway. Smoking, say the investigators, is "strongly" related to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality from various causes.