Quick Benefit to Smoking Halt, With a Caveat, Study Finds
Thursday, May 8, 2008 - 00:00
in Health & Medicine
A study showed major health benefits within five years for women who stop smoking, but also that it takes decades to correct respiratory damage and shed the added risk of lung cancer.
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