Reminder to Smokers: Your Lungs Are Aging
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10/03/2008
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New York Times (New York)
A simple discussion of lung capacity appears to double the rate patients follow a doctor's advice to quit smoking. Effect on Smoking Quit Rate of Telling Patients Their Lung Age: The Step2quit Randomised controlled trial (BMJ)A study published online March 7 in the British journal BMJ suggests that if a doctor tells smokers their "lung age'