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Is anyone else 30-something and take errin birth control and smoke?

I'm 39 and my daughter is 4 months old and I've been taking errin birth control since she was born. I just started to smoke again about a month ago. I only smoke 2 to 3 cigarettes a day. (outside of course. I will not subject my daughter to the second hand smoke) If I go out and have drinks, I smoke a little more. A couple a day won't increase my chances of stroke or heart attack will it? Or will it because of my age??

"Cigarette smoking increases the risk of serious cardiovascular side effects from oral contraceptive use. This risk increases with age and heavy smoking (15 or more cigarettes per day) and is quite marked in women over 35 years of age. Women who use oral contraceptives should be strongly advised not to smoke. More specifically, risks increase for heart attacks, blood clots, stroke, liver cancer, and gallbladder disease, although the risk is very small in healthy women without underlying risk factors."
-- http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/901289...

"What's the link between smoking and heart attack?
A person's risk of heart attack greatly increases with the number of cigarettes he or she smokes. There is no safe amount of smoking. Smokers continue to increase their risk of heart attack the longer they smoke. People who smoke a pack of cigarettes a day have more than twice the risk of heart attack than nonsmokers.

What's the link between smoking and oral contraceptives?
Women who smoke and also use oral contraceptives (birth control pills) increase several times their risk of coronary and peripheral artery diseases, heart attack, and stroke compared with nonsmoking women who use oral contraceptives."
-- http://www.clevelandclinic.org/health/he...

"Smoking doubles your risk of a stroke because it causes the arteries to fur up (atherosclerosis) and makes the blood more likely to clot. These increase the risk of a stroke."
-- http://www.stroke.org.uk/information/pre...

When your gynecologist finds out you've resumed smoking, she'll probably stop writing you prescriptions for the Pill. Women 35 and over who take the Pill and smoke greatly increase their chances of heart disease. There is no safe number if cigarettes per day.

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