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Please explain if it is true that if you are old and have smoked your whole life you could die if you quit?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Quitting tobacco: Use does not cause death.

Dr Altman and another doctor agreed

Answered 3/31/2014

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