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Cigarette smoke by Challiyil Eswaramangalath Vipin
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  • Post category:Physical health / Smoking
  • Post published:January 8, 2016

If you smoke 1-4 cigarettes a day, you are 5 times more likely to die from lung cancer than a non-smoker.

Source: Lung cancer risk factors @ Cancer Research UK

Image by Challiyil Eswaramangalath Vipin from Chalakudy, India (cigarette.. like a cigarette in the rain) [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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Tags: health, physical health, smoking, UK statistics

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