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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 9 Cardiovascular Disease |
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| | Cardiovascular Disease: Stroke |
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| | The relative risk of stroke among hypertensive smokers is five times that of smokers |
| | without hypertension, and 20 times that of normotensive nonsmokers. The British |
| | Regional Heart Study showed a relative risk for stroke of 3.7 in all current smokers. |
| | British Medical Journal, October 10, 1998, p. 962 |
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