Show Smoke moke Less live Longer A report compiled complied by a team of medical med ical researchers and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Association Association As As- warns that increased smoking on on the part of American women has caused a soaring increase in fatal heart attacks The be st study dy found that although only 8 percent of all an heart attack victims were women in the 59 1949 era they now suffer suf fer about 20 percent of all aU massive death dealing heart attacks And the researchers researchers re re- searchers blame smoking cigarette-smoking for forthe forthe forthe the sharply increased rate When the medical research team probed the cause of death among women heart heart- att attack ck victims victim it was found that an overwhelming 62 82 percent of them had been heavy smokers an additional 28 percent of the heart attack vi victims tims were light to moderate smokers and only 19 percent whose heart attacks could be traced to other causes cause's causes were even even light smokers Perhaps the most startling discovery was that the heart attack victims who died young average age of 48 were the heavy smokers Coronaries mowed down the light to moderate smokers at atan atan atan an average age of 55 but the nonsmokers nonsmokers nonsmokers non kers did not suffer a heart heart attack attack until until until un un- un- un til age 67 87 The evidence indicates that women who smoke heavily are chopping 19 years from their life span Moral to the survey if you wish to live longer smoke less |