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Smoking one a day can’t hurt, can it?

Smoking one a day can’t hurt, can it?

FromThe BMJ Podcast


Smoking one a day can’t hurt, can it?

FromThe BMJ Podcast

ratings:
Length:
14 minutes
Released:
Jan 25, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

We know that smoking 20 cigarettes a day increases your risk of CHD and stroke - but what happens if you cut down to 1, do you have 1/20th of that risk?

Allan Hackshaw, professor of epidemiology at UCL joins us to discuss a new systematic review and meta analysis published on bmj.com, examining the risk of smoking just one or two cigarettes a day.

Read the full review:
http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.j5855
Released:
Jan 25, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

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The BMJ is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully “online first” publication. The BMJ’s vision is to be the world’s most influential and widely read medical journal. Our mission is to lead the debate on health and to engage, inform, and stimulate doctors, researchers, and other health professionals in ways that will improve outcomes for patients. We aim to help doctors to make better decisions.