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Cigarettes are perhaps the only legal product whose effects of intended use cause illness and even death in its users. Cigarette smoking kills more than 440,000 Americans a year making it more lethal than AIDS, automobile accidents, homicides, suicides, drug overdoses, and fires combined. ... All health risks aside, cigarette smoking also greatly impacts our economy costing more than 150 billion dollars each year in health related cost. ... Smoking accounts for about 30% of all cancer deaths in the U. ... Cigarettes cause almost 90% of all lung cancer and can initiate cancers of the larynx (voice box), oral cavity, pharynx (throat) and esophagus. ... Smoking has been linked to tripling the chance of skin cancer. ... In female smokers, around 30% of cervical cancers have been attributed to smoking. Cervical cancer is just one effect of smoking for women.
Cigarettes can also affect pregnant women and their unborn babies.
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