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Surgeon General: Smoking Kills, Here's How

WASHINGTON — A new report from the Surgeon General details how cigarette smoke damages nearly every organ system in the body and provides doctors with a fresh message for their patients: Explain the specific ravages of smoking, rather than a more general "Smoking kills" message. The 700-page report, "How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Diseases," reads like a text book and details how smoking effects the reproductive, cardiovascular and...Full Story
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