{"id":95,"date":"2018-06-15T17:36:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T16:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2018-06-15T17:36:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T16:36:40","slug":"summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/the-paper\/the-statistics-of-smoking\/summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There can be no debate that smokers face elevated health risks compared with non-smokers in a majority of cases. The relative risks of lung cancer are typically put at over 20x and sometimes as high as 50x those of a non-smoker. The absolute risk of a non-smoker contracting lung cancer is, however, extraordinarily low and so even a very large multiple of a negligible risk remains quite small. In general the chances of contracting lung cancer as a smoker might be as low as one in ten, or alternatively nine out of ten smokers will not contract lung cancer. While mortality rates suggest a higher proportion of smokers will die in late middle age than non-smoking peers, the chances of dying in late middle age are relatively modest. In general, smoking related illnesses are illnesses of old age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There can be no debate that smokers face elevated health risks compared with non-smokers in a majority of cases. The relative risks of lung cancer are typically put at over 20x and sometimes as high as 50x those of a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/the-paper\/the-statistics-of-smoking\/summary\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":69,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/96"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}