Males tend to have significantly higher rates of smoking prevalence than females. In 2004, 23.4 percent of males currently smoked compared to 18.5 percent of females. Every time you puff on a cigarette, your blood pressure shoots up like smoke through a chimney. Two cigarettes can raise your readings by about 10 mm Hg systolic [...]

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