A new data detailed in 'smoking, aging and the centenarians' has been presented by V. Nicita-Mauro et al. Based on the new research which was published in the journal Experimental Gerontology, cigarette smoking is an vital accelerator of the aging process. This is through complex mechanisms which result in the formation of free radicals directly and the appearance of several pathologies in which smoke is a recognized risk factor indirectly. This indicates that smoke compromises not only anticipation in life, but also the value of the quality life.

Smoking is considered as the main reason for several diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular and respiratory problems. These diseases most often lead to death and most of the people around the world trying to avoid the habit of smoking. Researches proved that non-smokers have more life expectancy than smokers. People have to suppress smoking to avoid the smoke-induced biological damage.

Smoking will certainly reduce the longevity, mainly in centenarians. This has been confirmed by the recent observations obtained on centenarians. Smoking is extremely rare among the centenarians. In centenarians, the smoking habit leads to bad physical condition and non-autosufficiency. This proves that smoking compromises anticipation and quality of life even in extremely long living subjects. According to V. Nicita-Mauro and colleagues, all practitioners and geriatricians should endorse the abstinence from smoking as a behavioral norm for a correct life style.

The conclusion is that non smokers have less chance to get affected by diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular and respiratory problems. Also, non-smokers can holdup the appearance of the aging process. In addition to all these, non-smoking habit permits hereditarily inclined subjects to reach the maximum life and keep satisfactory health status and autosufficiency