One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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President Lyndon Johnson smoked at least 3 packs of cigarettes a day.
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Smoking while pregnant increases the chances of spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) stillbirths and premature labor.
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Smokers get ten times more wrinkles than non-smokers.
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In New York, it is against the law for children to pick up or collect cigarette and cigar butts.
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The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
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20 minutes after smoking a cigarette, blood pressure drops to normal.
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Cigarette smoke contains 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which cause cancer.
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