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Title: Risk-of-death charts show smokers should beware (AP)
Post by: riky on June 10, 2008, 11:42:06 PM
Risk-of-death charts show smokers should beware
    (AP)

 


AP - If you smoke, start thinking of yourself as a decade older than you really are. A 55-year-old man who smokes has almost the same chance of dying in the next 10 years as a 65-year-old who's never smoked ? a stark example from newly published charts that aim to put some of Americans' biggest health risks into context.


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