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Please tell me if you can get lung or throat/mouth cancer if you've smoked for only 9 months?
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Very unlikely: Have you quit smoking? If you smoked only 9 months and are now not using tobacco, your risk for cancer is only marginally higher than that of a person who never smoked. A small number of cancers do occur people who never used tobacco.
Answered 11/28/2017
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