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Effects of Smoking

Cigarette smoking has been identified as the most important source of preventable morbidity and premature mortality worldwide. Tobacco use usually begins in early adolescence, and almost all first use occurs before young people graduate from high school. Tobacco advertising also plays an important role in encouraging young people to begin a lifelong addiction to smoking before they are old enough to fully understand its long-term health risk. Approximately 90 percent of smokers begin smoking before the age of 21. An estimated three thousand teenagers begin to smoke each day, and one thousand of them will eventually die as a result. Males tend to have significantly higher rates of smoking prevalence than females. In 2005, 23.9 percent of males currently smoked compared to 18.1 percent of females.
It is generally assumed that the major motivational factor behind smoking is the presence of nicotine, a highly addictive drug. A stimulant, nicotine causes a......

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