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Scientists Find Cancer Culprits in Cigarette Smoke
Date:2/28/2008

) is the leading preventable cause of premature death in the country, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Smoking causes 90 percent of all lung cancer deaths in men and about 80 percent of lung cancer deaths in women.

Tobacco smoke contains more than 4,000 chemical compounds, including 43 that are know to cause cancer, according to a U.S. Surgeon General report released in 2000.

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The U.S. National Cancer Institute has more about smoking and cancer.



-- Robert Preidt



SOURCE: Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, news release, Feb. 28, 2008


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