Quitting Smoking

-"Quitting Smoking Prolongs Life at Any Age"
-Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times
-January 23, 2013
-http://www.latimes.com/health/la-sci-smoking-risks-20130124,0,1494622.story
Quitting smoking at any age could be helpful to any person's life expectancy. New research has been done, showing that by quitting at the age of sixty-four increases one's life by four years, and quitting at thirty-four can increase it by up to a decade. Fortunately, the percentage of smokers has decreased to about nineteen percent, but unfortunately, there are about forty five million smokers remaining in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that smoking related diseases have been the cause of less than half a million deaths each year. The elderly smokers need to be informed of this news as well as young ones, and it is never too late to quit smoking. However, some smokers believe that they cannot survive without smoking because they have been doing it for such a long time, that they think there is no way to replace their bad habit. If they stick to their plan of quitting and are serious about it, then surely they can do it.