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Are the effects of smoking worse if you are an alcoholic too?
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Yes: Cancer risk is increased. Perhaps certain heart ailments as well. Plus the addiction to one substance always makes another addiction more difficult to control.
Answered 10/24/2017
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Yes: Smoking and drinking alcohol to excess greatly increases one's risk of cancer, especially esophageal cancer. The esophagus is the tube connecting the throat to the stomach. Esophageal cancer is a particularly bad kind of cancer.
Answered 8/18/2012
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