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Quitting smoking and lung cancer risk reduction. what are the odds?
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Better: Quitting improves them. Work with family physician towards comprehensive wellness. It's important to understand there are numerous disease that smoking will increase risk. Per lung cancer, there are some online resources to help calculate risk: http://goo.Gl/divhj and http://goo.Gl/r9ita.
Answered 1/13/2015
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100%: There is virtually no controversy that stopping smoking reduces risk of lung cancer, emphysema, and heart disease and peripheral vascular disease and some other bad things quit quit quit.
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