Smoking cuts life span by nearly five years: study
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 09:42
in Health & Medicine
Smoking cigarettes has the same effect as cutting the life span by close to five years, according to a mortality risk chart released Tuesday in the US Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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