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Health Living: Smoking Diseases WebsiteHealth Living: Smoking Diseases Website
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Government of Canada
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9th - 10th
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Health Living: Smoking Diseases

Curated by ACT

Learn about all the different diseases you can get by smoking. Smoking increases your chances of heart disease, smoke, and lung cancer, to name just a few. Find out the link between impotence and smoking, as well as to bronchitis and emphysema. Also get information on the effects of smoking on unborn children and newborns.

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cigarettes, emphysema, lung cancer, tobacco

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bronchitis, effects of smoking on children, heart disease, impotence, second-hand smoke, smoking, smoking diseases, stroke, substance abuse, smoking effects

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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