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Article: Attention all social smokers: even the occasional puff can put you at risk. (bad-girl rehab).(Brief Article)
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- Cosmopolitan
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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While smoking just a couple cigs once in a while seems harmless, new research says it's clearly not. In a 22-year-long study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, women who smoked just three to five cigarettes a day doubled their risk of heart attacks. "Carbon monoxide and nicotine constrict blood vessels and stress the heart," explains ...
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