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Our priorities are safety, informed choice, and long-term freedom from nicotine
The rest of the story is about how theyre made, how theyre used, what they mean in the culture, and why so many people sense such a gulf between them even as public-health agencies warn that neither is harmless
This is why smoking is a key eligibility criterion for breast reconstructive and breast reduction procedures
For those who smoke until age 40 years and then stop, the remaining excess risk of about 20% (relative risk, 1.2, hence 120% risk less 100% baseline risk = 20% excess risk) is substantial and implies that about one in six of these former smokers who dies before the age of 80 years would not have died if their death rates had been the same as otherwise similar non-smokers