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How does smoke cause cancer?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Smoking harms nearly every major organ of the body. The risk of developing smoking-related diseases, such as lung and other cancers, Heart disease, stroke, and respiratory illnesses, increases with total lifetime exposure to cigarette smoke. This includes the number of cigarettes a person smokes each day, the intensity of smoking (i.e., the size and frequency of puffs), the age at which smoking began, the number of years a person has smoked, and a smoker's secondhand smoke exposure.
Cancer is a tumor in which cells divide at a very fast rate. Smoking just helps this process in the lungs, throat, or even heart.

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