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Tobacco and cancer

Tobacco and its various components increase the risk of several types of cancer especially cancer of the lung, mouth, larynx, esophagus, bladder, kidney, pancreas, and cervix. Smoking also increases the risk of heart attacks, strokes and chronic lung disease.

Reviewed last on: 10/10/2005
J. Gordon Lambert, MD, Associate Medical Director RxRemedy

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