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Quick Facts About Tobacco

Other Names: Smoke, bone, butt, coffin nail, cancer stick

Effects:

  • Addiction
  • Heart and cardiovascular disease
  • Cancer of the lung, larynx, esophagus, bladder, pancreas, kidney, and mouth
  • Emphysema and chronic bronchitis
  • Spontaneous abortion, preterm delivery, and low birth weight
  • Diminished or extinguished sense of smell and taste
  • Frequent colds
  • Smoker's cough
  • Gastric ulcers
  • Premature and more abundant face wrinkles
  • Stroke

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