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Studies on animals have shown that breathing butadiene during pregnancy can increase the number of birth defects

famously observed on January 11, 1979 (the fifteenth anniversary of the publication of the landmark US Surgeon Generals report on smoking and health) that now women who smoke like men die like men who smoke. By 1986, deaths from lung cancer in women had surpassed those of breast cancer, and by the early-2000s more cases of lung cancer were being diagnosed in women than in men

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This happens repeatedly, with most consumers never knowing about the products that failed

For businesses, this meant implementing a series of rigorous compliance steps