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October

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.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 at 12:24 pm by Noreen O'Donnell.
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Noreen O'Donnell For the last 20 years, Noreen O'Donnell has written about Hillary Clinton's run for the Senate, rebuilding Ground Zero, the Korean immigrants who travel north each day from Queens to work in nail salons, deadly runaway fire trucks and other stories in Westchester and Putnam counties. Now she's a columnist.

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