Prevalence of Chronic Diseases and Cigarette Smoking Compared to nonsmokers, current and former smokers were 5.5 times more likely to have chronic lung disease, 2.8 times more likely to have heart disease, 1.7 times more likely to have diabetes, 1.3 times more likely to have high blood pressure, 1.2 times more likely to have high cholesterol, and 1.4 times more likely to have cancer (Figure 1
Clovis and Western Stemmed: population migration and the meeting of two technologies in the Intermountain West
But like coffee, tobacco has all sorts of crap in it besides nicotine about 5000 other chemicals, including the carcinogens and toxins that give you lung disease and organ damage
Additionally, findings were consistent across the two countries
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