Spit tobacco, pipes and cigars are not safe alternatives to cigarettes. “Light” or “low-tar” cigarettes aren’t safe either. Today’s machines produce 14,000 cigarettes every minute. The complete procedure is highly automated, and computers do a large amount of the work. That’s because computers can work all night and don’t take smoke breaks. Contents of Cigarette [...]

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Smoking-related diseases claim an estimated 438,000 American lives each year, including those affected indirectly, such as babies born prematurely due to prenatal maternal smoking and victims of “secondhand” exposure to tobacco’s carcinogens. Smoking Statistics A growing number of studies have linked smoking with poor mental health. Several of these have shown that patients with major [...]

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