Smoking May Trigger Early Menopause
Smoking gets such a bad rap. It's blamed for lung cancer, breast cancer, emphysema, heart disease, yellow teeth, bad breath, low birth weight babies and overall poor breeding. Unless you're Winston Churchill or Rita Hayworth. Which you're not.
Now add one more to the list of what ails smokers: early menopause.
According to Norwegian researchers, smoking increases the risk of early menopause by 59 percent. For heavy smokers, the risk is nearly doubled. The good news: if you quit before age 35 or so, you may not be affected.
Being healthy is also supposed to help stave off early menopause (defined as age 44 and under). Other pluses: being married and educated and having "high social participation," whatever that means.
Smoking may bring on early menopause [Reuters]
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