Importance of smoking cessation for cardiovascular risk reduction

This editorial refers to ‘Smoking cessation, but not reduction, reduces cardiovascular disease incidence’, by S.-M. Jeong et al., https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehab578. Nearly 60 years ago, the Framingham Heart Study first reported on the association between smoking and coronary heart disease on a population-based level.1,2 Since then, innumerable data have confirmed a strong, graded relationship of smoking, smoking duration, and number of...