Non-smokers married to smokers are at risk of stroke

Oh heck, you don’t even have to be a smoker any more to be at risk of death and the like. So even if you’ve quit, or always managed to resist, but your honey is a smoker, you’re far more likely to have a stroke.

So does this mean you should ditch the other-half, or that you may as well join them on their peace pipe as you’re now boned anyway?

Let’s find out instead of making uneducated, unhelpful guesses? Okay…

The US study published today in American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows that second-hand smoke contributes an increased risk of having strokes and being married to a grubby little smoker raises the risk by 42% compared to someone married to a non-smoking square.

And if you used to smoke and your spouse still does the rates are 72%, about the same as if you still smoked. Pah!

For nine years, we followed 16,225 people aged 50 and over who had never had a stroke.

Source: Daily Mail

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