How does smoking affect your immune system?
Part of the reason smokers are at risk for lung cancer and respiratory diseases may be that smoking suppresses immune cells.
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About Lung Cancer
Lung cancer is the most common and most deadly cancer among men and women in the United States. Each year lung cancer takes more lives than colon, breast, prostate and lymph cancer combined. Cancer.gov states: “…more than 222,000 new cases expected in the United States in 2010.”
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