Morning Smokers

Attention smokers! There’s something you should know before you light that first cigarette of the day...

If you must – wait at LEAST an hour after you wake up. New research found morning smokers are 30% more likely to develop lung cancer if they light up within that first hour. Those scary statistics jump to 80% in smokers who light up in their first half-hour awake.

Researchers say it’s because morning smokers have higher levels of nicotine and are probably more addicted than smokers who can refrain for an hour or more.

Source: Penn State College of Medicine