A new study published this week in the Lancet Journal of Health Longevity is reinforcing the negative effects of smoking on cognitive health and offering new evidence to support quitting among seniors. Article content

The research was conducted by scientists at Britain’s University College London, and funded by the (U.K.) National Institute on Aging, National Institute for Health and Care Research. It drew on data from studies conducted in 12 countries, including 18 years (2002–20) of cognitive data. Article content

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It involved participants who quit smoking and who were matched with an equal number of continuing smokers according to key demographic, socioeconomic, and cognitive criteria. In all there were 9,436 participants: 4,718 smokers who quit

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