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Fact Sheet

Smoking cigarettes can have many adverse effects on the body

"The effects of hookah/waterpipe smoking on general health and the cardiovascular system" (PDF)

Although many billions of dollars have been spent on heart disease research since the first Surgeon Generals Report on smoking and health in 1964, resulting in great advances in cardiovascular surgery such as heart transplants and repair of aortic aneurysms, these treatments are what is known as tertiary care heroically fixing something that should never have been broken in the first place

Symptoms can last one to two hours if youve had mild exposure

deaths-980,000 out of 1,980,000 total deaths