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If you have a benign tumor can smoking make it malignant?
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No: smoking certainly can cause cancer and there's such a thing as a scar cancer where cancer can arise from a scar but the bottom line is that you should not smoke since smoking clearly causes lung cancer, oral cancer, throat cancer, and contributes to other cancers including esophageal, gastric, and even bladder cancer.
Answered 6/13/2018
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