Recent studies have shown that there are many more risks associated with smoking cigarettes. Some of the newest and more surprising are Colon Cancer, Diabetes, and Aneurisms. In November 2000, researchers from the University of Utah published a study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute showing there is a strong link between colon cancer and smoking. Dr. Noriyuki Nakanishi of Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine and reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine that smoking is also an independent risk factor for diabetes . Dr. E. Sander Connolly and his colleagues had previously found that kicking the smoking habit cut the risk of brain aneurysms .
Brain aneurysms can form at an early age.
Connolly, Jr. and his colleagues at Columbia University in New York City reported the findings in the January issue of Neurosurgery. Other smoking effects have dramatic results on the body, but are not life-threatening. They will certainly affect the quality of life and general length of life. An orthopedic surgeon in Oregon, Dr. Miguel Schmitz says, after finding that leg fractures took 70 percent longer to heal in smokers than in non-smokers, that it was a significant difference. The healing time for smokers of the group was 276 days and for the non-smokers only 152 days.