More on smoking
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- October
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I always thought that smoking a couple of cigarettes a day was relatively harmless—as long as you didn’t get addicted.
I was wrong.
Smoking just one to four cigarettes a day nearly triples the risk overall of dying from heart disease or lung cancer, according to a recent study by doctors at the National Health Screening Service in Oslo, Norway.
For women, the risk of lung cancer is nearly five times greater than among those who never smoked.
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