Regardless of past smoking habits, healthy living may reduce cancer-, cardiovascular death rates.HealthDay (4/19, Preidt) reported that a "healthy lifestyle nearly halves nonsmokers' risk of death from cancer, cardiovascular disease and other causes," according to a study in the journal Cancer Biomarkers, Epidemiology, and Prevention. The researchers reviewed "diet and lifestyle questionnaires filled out in 1992 and 1993 by almost 112,000 non-smoking women and men in the Cancer Prevention Study." After 14 years of follow-up, for participants with higher compliance scores, the "risk of cardiovascular-related death was 58 percent lower for women and 48 percent lower for men, and the risk of cancer death was 24 percent lower in women and 30 percent lower in men." Notably, the findings were "similar for both never and former" smokers.
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