Women who smoke just 100 cigarettes in their lifetime are '30% more likely to get breast cancer'

Many social smokers believe they don’t puff on enough cigarettes to be at risk of serious side effects.

But new research shows that smoking just 100 cigarettes in a lifetime increases a woman’s chance of developing breast cancer by 30 per cent.

The research also revealed that women between 20 and 44 years old who have smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for at least 10 years are 60 per cent more likely to develop the most common form of breast cancer.

Young women who smoke a packet of cigarettes a day for at least 10 years are 60 per cent more likely to get the most common type of breast cancer – the oestrogen receptor-positive type+2

Young women who smoke a packet of cigarettes a day for at least 10 years are 60 per cent more likely to get the most common type of breast cancer – the oestrogen receptor-positive type

Dr Christopher Li, from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and his team analysed data from young women in the Greater Seattle area who were diagnosed with breast cancer between 2004 and 2010.

Of those women, 778 were diagnosed with the more common oestrogen receptor-positive type and 182 had the less common but more aggressive triple-negative type.

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