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  2. Health effects of tobacco - Wikipedia

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    The potential effects of smoking, such as lung cancer, can take up to 20 years to manifest themselves. Historically, women began smoking en masse later than men, so an increased death rate caused by smoking amongst women did not appear until later. The male lung cancer death rate decreased in 1975—roughly 20 years after the initial decline in ...

  3. Smoker's macrophages - Wikipedia

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    Iron imbalance locally in the lung thus results in higher risk of infection. Hemosiderin is the iron storage in smoker's macrophage rather than ferritin. It is formed during hemorrhage or abnormal metabolism of ferritin. [14] [15] Indeed, buildup of iron causes oxidative stress resulting in lung damage and mitochondrial dysfunction. [13]

  4. Smoking and Health - Wikipedia

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    The report's conclusions were almost entirely focused on the negative health effects of cigarette smoking. It found: cigarette smokers had a seventy percent increase in age-corrected mortality rate; cigarette smoke was the primary cause of chronic bronchitis; a correlation between smoking, emphysema, and heart disease. In addition, it reported:

  5. Smoke inhalation - Wikipedia

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    Smoke inhalation is the breathing in of harmful fumes (produced as by-products of combusting substances) through the respiratory tract. [1] This can cause smoke inhalation injury (subtype of acute inhalation injury) which is damage to the respiratory tract caused by chemical and/or heat exposure, as well as possible systemic toxicity after smoke inhalation.

  6. Smoking cessation - Wikipedia

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    Americans under the poverty line have higher rates of smoking and lower rates of quitting than those over the poverty line. [173] [174] [175] While the homeless population is concerned about short-term effects of smoking, such as shortness of breath or recurrent bronchitis, they are not as concerned with long-term consequences. [174]

  7. Fact check: COVID-19 can cause worse lung damage than smoking

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    An Instagram post claims lung damage from COVID-19 infection can be much worse than from smoking. This is true. Fact check: COVID-19 can cause worse lung damage than smoking

  8. Archaeologists say tobacco consumption leaves a metabolic record that can be studied for centuries

  9. Epigenetic effects of smoking - Wikipedia

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    Children exposed prenatally to cigarette smoke demonstrate increased risk for fetal growth restriction, sudden infant death syndrome, and addictive behaviors later in life, as well as a host of other secondary health effects. It is thought that epigenetic changes that arise from smoking cigarettes or exposure to cigarette smoke play a role in ...