premature due to smoking. These include heart disease (smoking is responsible for 30 percent of all heart attacks and cardiovascular deaths), cancer (smoking is responsible for at least 30 percent of all cancer deaths, and 87 percent of lung cancer deaths each year), and lung problems (smoking is responsible for 82 percent of deaths due to emphysema and chronic bronchitis)(Smoking: how to stop).
Smoking does not only cause severe illness and premature death in the smoker, but unlike other addictive drugs, smoking also affects the health of non-users. The detrimental and irreversible effect of smoking by pregnant women upon fetal development i
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