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The Hazards of Smoking.
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The Hazards of Smoking Smoking is defined as the action of inhaling tobacco from a pipe, cigar, or cigarette. It has been practiced for 100's of years, including by early North-American natives. Europeans had introduced it into the Old World by the early 16th century. It was continually practiced since then throughout the world, with tobacco companies arising and packaged cigarettes soon available. Smokers had no knowledge of cigarette smoke's harm to their health until 1964, when the surgeon general of the US Public Health Service concluded that smoking was hazardous to an individual's health. Smoking affects a person's health in many ways, having both immediate and long term effects. It is a serious addiction, caused by the drug nicotine that once inhaled; nicotine reaches the brain almost immediately. Smoking is a hazardous habit, because it leads to addiction, disease, and high-risk pregnancy, and smokers should do everything...
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