Other senators included those from New York, Washington, California, Massachusetts, Ohio, Illinois, and Rhode Island
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So of course we know that smoking can increase your risk of diseases, like heart disease, stroke, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD, but researchers at Monash Uni surveyed people around their experience of care from a GP and whether they got the support that they had hoped to get when they went to that GP, and found that people with smoking-related diseases, especially COPD, said that they experienced stigma at the GP, feeling judged, like they got a reduced level of service or made to feel ashamed because there is this sort of sense that these diseases are self-inflicted
I typed up some of these passages so that I would remember them, but of course can't find them now to quote as PROOF that you should read this
So just how dangerous is it
Smoking is also independently associated with increased post-surgery complications such as infection and aseptic loosening following arthroplasty [9,10,11,12]