How much do I have to smoke to significantly raise health risks?
Any smoking or second hand smoke will increase health risks. Men who smoke increase chances of developing lung cancer 22 percent.
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About Second Hand Smoke
Smoke that has been created by a smoker and then inhaled by another person is called second hand smoke. For many years it was thought that second hand smoke was not dangerous. That has been disproved, and in fact many people get cancer from inhaling second hand smoke.
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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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