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2. Health effects of tobacco - Wikipedia

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   The potential effects of smoking, such as lung cancer, can take up to 20 years to manifest themselves. Historically, women began smoking en masse later than men, so an increased death rate caused by smoking amongst women did not appear until later. The male lung cancer death rate decreased in 1975—roughly 20 years after the initial decline in ...

3. The 3 Deadliest Diseases Caused by Smoking - AOL

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   Based on the CDC's statistics, the risk of developing lung cancer by smoking cigarettes increases by a factor of 23 for men and 13 for women relative to non-smokers, while five-year survival rates ...

4. Study sheds light on why 'healthy smokers' exist - AOL

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   The dangers of smoking cigarettes are well-documented, and until recently the reason some can smoke and stay healthy remained somewhat of a medical mystery. Study sheds light on why 'healthy ...

5. Smoking - Wikipedia

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   Smoking is a practice in which a substance is combusted and the resulting smoke is typically inhaled to be tasted and absorbed into the bloodstream of a person. Most commonly, the substance used is the dried leaves of the tobacco plant, which have been rolled with a small rectangle of paper into an elongated cylinder called a cigarette.

6. Tar (tobacco residue) - Wikipedia

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   Smoking exposes delicate cells inside the lungs directly to these compounds. This causes mutations in the DNA of the cells, which leads to cancer. According to the World Health Organization's report, "Tobacco Smoke and Involuntary Smoking", 80 percent of all cases of lung cancer are attributable to smoking. [6]

7. Disturbing video shows what your lungs look like after ... - AOL

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   6.5 years = 2,374 days and 56,976 hours, or 3,418,560 minutes. 5,772 cigarettes per year for 54 years = 311,688 cigarettes. 3,418,560/311,688=11 minutes per cigarette.

8. Tobacco smoking - Wikipedia

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   Common adverse effects of tobacco smoking. The more common effects are in bold face. [88] Tobacco use leads most commonly to diseases affecting the heart and lungs, with smoking being a major risk factor for heart attacks, [89] [90] strokes, [91] chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), [92] idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), [93] and ...

9. Most Americans Are Quitting Smoking—Except For Those Over 65

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   Cigarette manufacturers weren’t required to print health warnings on the side of cartons until 1966, 12 years after the paper that definitively confirmed a link between smoking and lung cancer ...