A Quote by Ernest Hemingway

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Ernest Hemingway

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Age Equal Hesitation Increases Proportion Relation Risk

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Ernest Hemingway
American - Novelist
July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961

The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity and the resulting ratios in the three age groups in which a large number of patients were interviewed (ages 45 to 74) are averaged, the relative risks become 6, 19, 26, 49, and 65 when the number of cigarettes smoked a day are 3, 10, 20, 35, and, say, 60-that is, the mid-points of each smoking group. In other words, on the admittedly speculative assumptions we have made, the risk seems to vary in approximately simple proportion with the amount smoked.

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