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The risk of death decreases with time after smoking cessation. Reduction in mortality from lung cancer (left) and from all causes (right), according to time after cessation from smoking. Mortality reduction data (and 95% confidence intervals) are expressed as a fraction of the mortality risk of continuing smokers (set at 1.0). Adapted from (4).
