{"id":7391,"date":"2012-04-23T01:32:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T01:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiophile.org\/?p=7391"},"modified":"2023-07-09T18:10:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T12:40:21","slug":"pack-year-for-cigarette-smoking-as-a-risk-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/pack-year-for-cigarette-smoking-as-a-risk-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"Pack year for cigarette smoking as a risk factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dr2lTGjlLKA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Pack year for cigarette smoking as a risk factor<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Number of cigarettes in a pack is taken as twenty. If a person has been smoking one pack per year for five years, it is taken as five pack years. If it was forty cigarettes per day for three years, it will be taken as six pack years. 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