The disturbing report on CTE released Tuesday will not signal the death of the NFL.

Of course, it will give already-wary parents yet another powerful heads-up to the dangers of a violent game that will have more of them believing that the rewards — fame and fortune and teamwork — are not worth the risks — neurological impairment, paralysis and in some tragic cases suicide — for their sons.

In other words, better safe than sorry.

Even if the game is safer now than it was years ago.

But just as there are those who continue to blow smoke at the perils of tobacco cigarettes, there will be testosterone-fueled males who will not be able to cure their football addiction. Or want to.

“We always look at the participation levels, and they’re down a little bit,” Giants co-owner John Mara told The Post.

“It’s certainly an area of concern for the league, but I think there are so many more benefits to playing football. I think the benefits outweigh the risk, and a lot of medical professionals will tell you that.”

Research on 202 former football players from high school on up found CTE evidence in nearly all of them, with 110 of 111 found in former NFL players. As sobering as this report is, it would nonetheless be wrong to conclude that 110 of 111 NFL players today will be diagnosed tomorrow with CTE. Lifestyle variables could have played a role. “There are many questions that remain unanswered,” said lead author Dr. Ann McKee, a Boston University neuroscientist.

Harry Carson was a Hall of Fame linebacker for the Mara Giants. He was diagnosed in 1990 with post-concussion syndrome — 10 years after he pondered driving off the Tappan Zee Bridge as a player. Carson, who has learned how to manage his condition, is on record as saying that if he knew then what he knows now, he would not have played. He was asked what impact the CTE report might have on the future of football.

“I don’t think the future of football is gonna be affected in one way or another,” Carson told the Post, “because I think there’ll always be people who will want to play football.

“You look at the dollars that are involved in the game — that’s not going to keep people from playing. Yeah, you have guys like Chris Borland [former 49ers linebacker who retired at 24], who have done their research and they’re going to decide that they don’t want to play, but when you look at all of those guys coming out of the South, those guys who have been disadvantaged, who have absolutely nothing, they’re going to want to play just for the money. They’ll sacrifice themselves to take care of their families and so forth. But the game is not going to be affected, because you will always have is players willing to assume that neurological risk now.”

Carson has already issued a no-football edict to his 7-year-old grandson Kellen. “Think about all those other guys who’ve already played who had no warning, nobody gave them a heads-up — what’s gonna happen to those guys?” he said. “You have concussion lawsuits, but — excuse my language — who in the f–k wants that money, because in order to get the money, you have to be sick. There are so many guys that you know who are having neurological issues right now, but they’re not saying anything about it.”

The league for too long closed its eyes and ears to a burgeoning concussion issue.

“I think we’re making some progress there, I know there’s a lot of work to be done, but I think we have a lot of outstanding medical professionals that are working on this issue,” Mara said.

“We know so much more about concussions now than we did even 10 years ago, much less 20 or 30 years ago, so I think we treat them a lot more intelligently now.”

The ongoing debate will rage on.

The latest bombshell will open plenty of eyes for sure.

Eyes wide shut for everyone who wants to play football.