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Could someone get emphysema from smoking paper once?
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No: You can't get emphysema from smoking ANYTHING once. This is a disease that requires decades of damage to the lung. There are some inherited forms, such as alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency that can happen more rapidly, but cigarette smoking takes many, many years of damaging lungs to produce emphysema. Smoking just paper once (for ? reason) wouldn't really cause any harm to anything.
Answered 5/25/2014
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