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I'm just wondering, if you have smoked for 15-20 years what are the percentages you will develop cancer?
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Duration and: Amiunt of smoking is directly linked to increase in all of the cancers; lung, esophagus, head & neck, bladder, kidney, pancreas, and vasclar and pulmonary mortality. It's odds are actually worse than russian roulette. Women incidence continues to rise. There is no benefits to tobacco use: expensive, dangerous and out of fashion.
Answered 8/25/2013
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