Harmful effects of tobacco smoke are more dangerous to the young than to adults, it has emerged. Re...
Harmful effects of tobacco smoke are more dangerous to the young than to adults, it has emerged.
Research published in the International Journal of Cancer said exposure to second-hand smoke when young increased the risk of bladder cancer in later life.
For every five years later in life that people started smoking, their risk of developing bladder cancer was reduced by 19%.
Ex-smokers were found to be twice as likely to develop the disease but the risk slowly declined when they stopped.
Bladder cancer is the fourth most common cancer affecting men and the tenth most common cancer affecting women in the UK.
