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Dr. Koop - Smoking Cessation and Its Benefits- Health Encyclopedia and Reference |
 | | Patients who smoke within the week prior to surgery have triple the number of complications from the surgery suffered by patients with the same smoking history who have stopped for a week. |
| | The younger one is at onset of smoking, the number of cigarettes smoked, the number of years smoking, and the depth of inhalation, the greater the damage to the body from cigarettes. |
| | Cessation of smoking is, however, associated with a decrease in excess mortality. |
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