One daily cig can increase your risk of heart disease by about 50 percent We told you recently that light smoking — smoking fewer than 10 cigarettes a day — increases overall mortality by 87 percent. Smoking even half a cigarette a day still increases overall mortality by 67 percent. If you were holding out hope that someone would eventually produce a single solitary health benefit to smoking tobacco, that day is not today. Because today, we learn what must be the final nail in the smoker’s coffin: An analysis of 141 studies on smoking has found that even just one cigarette a day also increases your risk of heart disease by 48 percent (for men) and 57 percent (for women). One cigarette, my g... [Read more]