Interactive Tool: How Does Smoking Increase Your Risk of Heart Attack?

What does your score mean?

Your score will appear in values from 1% to 99%. If your score is nonsmoker: 2% and smoker: 6%, it means that for your age and gender 2 of 100 nonsmokers compared with 6 of 100 smokers will have a heart attack in the next 10 years. In this example, smokers are 3 times more likely than nonsmokers to have a heart attack in the next 10 years.

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Author:	Kathe Gallagher, MSW	Last Updated: November 24, 2006
Medical Review:	Martin Gabica, MD - Family Medicine Caroline S. Rhoads, MD - Internal Medicine Robert A. Kloner, MD, PhD - Cardiology
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