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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. Smoker's macrophages - Wikipedia

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   Smoking is found to be the most important causative factor leading to COPD. [23] Because of the altered inflammatory response of the macrophages, smoking induces inflammation across the entire airway, which in turns obstructs the airflow. Symptoms of COPD include persistent coughing, wheezing, chest infections and breathlessness.

4. 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 ...

5. Smoke inhalation - Wikipedia

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   Smoke inhalation is the breathing in of harmful fumes (produced as by-products of combusting substances) through the respiratory tract. [1] This can cause smoke inhalation injury (subtype of acute inhalation injury) which is damage to the respiratory tract caused by chemical and/or heat exposure, as well as possible systemic toxicity after smoke inhalation.

6. 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.

7. 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 ...

8. Most Americans Are Quitting Smoking—Except For Those ... - AOL

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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 ...

9. Passive smoking - Wikipedia

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   Lung cancer: Passive smoking is a risk factor for lung cancer. [19] [20] In the United States, secondhand smoke is estimated to cause more than 7,000 deaths from lung cancer a year among non-smokers. [21] A quarter of all cases occur in people who have never smoked. [22]