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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 9 Cardiovascular Disease |
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| | Smoking stiffens the aorta within one minute after lighting up, and the effect lasts 20 |
| | minutes or more. |
| | Reuters Health eLine, January 7, 1997 |
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| | Women who smoke 25 to 34 cigarettes a day are 1.8 times more likely to develop a |
| | pulmonary embolism than their nonsmoking counterparts, and smoking more than 34 |
| | cigarettes a day increased the risk by 3.4 times. |
| | Reuters Medical News, February 25, 1997 |
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| | Smokers with no history of heart disease are 20 times more likely than nonsmokers to |
| | suffer from myocardial ischemia, or inadequate oxygen supply to the heart, if they |
| | smoke in the 24 hours before surgery. |
| | Reuters, October 22, 1997 |
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| | Women who smoke and use oral contraceptives are up to 30 times more likely to |
| | have a heart attack and 22 times more likely to have a stroke than women who neither |
| | smoke nor use birth control pills. |
| | Journal of the American Medical Association, September 11, 1987, p. 1339 |
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