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2. Health effects of tobacco - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 January 2025. Circumstances, mechanisms, and factors of tobacco consumption on human health "Health effects of smoking" and "Dangers of smoking" redirect here. For cannabis, see Effects of cannabis. For smoking crack cocaine, see Crack cocaine § Health issues. "Smoking and health" redirects here. For ...

3. 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.

4. Doctors Are Begging You to Pay Attention to This Early Lung ...

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   How to Lower Your Risk for Lung Cancer. As you might expect, smoking is the number one risk factor for lung cancer. An estimated 90% of lung cancers are caused by smoking. But even if you don’t ...

5. Smoking and Health - Wikipedia

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   The health effects of tobacco had been debated by users, medical experts, and governments alike since its introduction to European culture. [1] Hard evidence for the ill effects of smoking became apparent with the results of several long-term studies conducted in the early to middle twentieth century, such as the epidemiology studies of Richard Doll and pathology studies of Oscar Auerbach.

6. 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 ...

7. 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.

8. Why it's so hard to quit smoking — and how to boost ... - AOL

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   While smoking is initially mentally addictive, over time it becomes physiologically addictive too, meaning going without it can prompt physical withdrawal symptoms such as irritability ...

9. Nicotine poisoning - Wikipedia

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   The LD 50 of nicotine is 50 mg/kg for rats and 3 mg/kg for mice. 0.5–1.0 mg/kg can be a lethal dosage for adult humans, and 0.1 mg/kg for children. [19] [20] However the widely used human LD 50 estimate of 0.5–1.0 mg/kg was questioned in a 2013 review, in light of several documented cases of humans surviving much higher doses; the 2013 review suggests that the lower limit causing fatal ...