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Cigarette
smoking is associated with evidence of mild airway obstruction and slowed
growth of lung function in adolescents. Adolescent girls may be more
vulnerable than boys to the effects of smoking on the growth of lung
function.
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A child who's parents both smoke, gets the same effect as a child who
themselves smokes between 60 and 150 cigarettes per year.
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Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (secondhand smoke) is responsible
for approx. 3,000 lung cancer deaths per year among non-smokers.
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Smoking doubles the risk for bladder cancer.
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Women who smoke double their risk for cervical cancer.
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Smokers have a 50% greater risk of contracting myeloid leukemia.
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Tobacco causes about 70% of the 30,000 cases of oral cancer each year
in the U.S.
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Smokers are admitted to hospitals twice as often as non-smokers.
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In a study of sedentary men, 21% of smokers reported sexual dysfunction
and erectile failure, compared to only 4% of non-smokers.
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Smokers have more sleep difficulties than do non-smokers and tend to
exhibit more depression, irritability and anxiety.
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HIV- infected patients who smoke develop full-blown AIDS twice as quickly
as non-smokers. And, smokers with the virus were twice as likely to
die.
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Smoking accelerates bone loss in older women and increases the risk
of osteoporosis.
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Cigarettes kill more than 400,000 Americans every year. This figure
represents more deaths then from AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, murders,
suicides, drugs and fires --- combined!
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Nicotine is the most addictive substance. About one-third of people
who smoke become addicted. Heroin is addictive in about one-fourth of
its users, followed by cocaine and alcohol at 16% and 15%, respectively;
amphetamines at 11% and marijuana at 9%, according to the National Institute
of Medicine.
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