The reality is that the additives in tobacco increase what is called the bioavailability of nicotine (2) - this is how much of it is readily taken up by the body
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These chemicals are also associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a progressive disease that makes it difficult to breathe
Every additional cigarette increased the sudden infant death risk We wanted to make it so that the differences we saw in the data couldnt be chalked up to differences in race or differences in any of these other variables, said the studys lead author, Tatiana Anderson, a PhD fellow at the Seattle Childrens Research Institute, and we still found this increased risk. To be more specific, the researchers discovered that any smoking during pregnancy even a single cigarette was associated with a doubling of risk of a newborn baby dying suddenly in his or her sleep
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