How Smoking Burns Your Health
When people think about the health risks of smoking, they usually think about the risks to the smoker, but, secondhand smoke is also dangerous. According to the American Heart Association, secondhand smoke causes about 46,000 heart disease deaths and 3,400 lung cancer deaths in the US every year.
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July 1, 2014