Smoking remains the leading preventable cause of morbidity and mortality.
With an estimated 1.22 billion smokers worldwide, the World Health Organization(WHO) reported that the global mortality of smoking was 5.4 million in year 2004.
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Cigarette smoking greatly increases the risk of lung cancer and heart attacks
(coronary heart disease and acute myocardial infarction). It is also a risk
factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cancers, including
pharyngeal, esophageal, bladder, laryngeal, and pancreatic cancer. Life
expectancy of a regular smoker is roughly 7-13 years shorter than that of a
non-smoker on average. In China, approximately 3000 deaths/day were
attributable to smoking in 2005, reaching almost seven million deaths caused by
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