London, Sep 2 (IANS) Less puffing cuts downs mortality rates in individuals and entire populations within six months.
Simon Capewell, psychologist at University of Liverpool, said: ‘Our research found that smoking bans and diet improvements powerfully and rapidly reduce chronic disease in both individuals and in the wider population.
‘This actually happens quickly, within a far shorter timescale than had previously been assumed; within months and years rather than decades,’ the journal Lancet quoted Capewell as saying.
