15 years While smokers and ex-smokers have more visceral fat, a larger ratio of visceral to subcutaneous adipose tissue and a higher incidence of elevated plasma triglyceride levels, hyperglycaemia and the metabolic syndrome than nonsmokers, according to a 2011 study, after 15 years the ex-smoker's fat ratios and risks are comparable to those of a never-smoker
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