Tag: Smoking and Lung Health
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Don’t Be A Butt-Head!
In spite of the well-documented relationship between smoking and lung cancer, lung cancer remains the number one killer of more Americans. It is responsible for increasing upper respiratory infections like pneumonia, and for exacerbating lung diseases like asthma, bronchitis and emphysema. Nicotine wreaks havoc on the body by decreasing our blood hemoglobin’s capacity for carrying oxygen. …