Smoking
is a major cause of heart disease, bronchitis, emphysema, and stroke and
contributes to the severity of colds and pneumonia. Tobacco has a damaging
affect on women's health and is associated with increased risk of
miscarriage, preterm delivery, stillbirth, and infant death, and is a cause
of low birth weight in infants. Furthermore, the secondhand smoke from
cigarettes as a harmful health effect on those around the smoke.
Nicotine is found in substantial amounts in all forms
of tobacco. It is absorbed readily from tobacco smoke in the lungs and from
smokeless tobacco in the mouth or nose and rapidly spreads throughout the
body.
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