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Risk Analysis of: Young Women Smoking By Louise Eccles Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death in women in the United States. Of the more than 140,000 women who die prematurely from tobacco-related illnesses each year, 80 percent began smoking while they were adolescents. Ev...
The effects include coronary heart disease, cancer of the lung, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and arteriosclerosis. Arteriosclerosis is a build up of fatty deposits and loss of elasticity in the artery walls that can lead to a range of diseases including strokes, peripheral vascular disease and gangrene, and aortic and other aneurysms (Surgery Door). ...