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Some of the adverse health effects include:

• Cigarettes contain at least 43 individual cancer-causing chemicals and smoking is directly responsible for almost 90% of all lung cancers.
• Smoking causes most of the cases of emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
• Smoking during pregnancy accounts for 20 - 30% of low birthweight infants and up to 14% of preterm births. Approximately 10% of all infant deaths are attributable to smoking.
• Although healthy in appearance, full-term infants of smokers have been found to be born with narrowed airways and impaired lung function.

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