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15 Things You Need to Know About Lung Cancer

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3. Lung cancer causes: smoking

Cigarettes weaken the lungs’ defense mechanism, thus allowing the carcinogens from the cigarettes to build up in the lungs. Cigarette smoke has at least 73 carcinogens, so it’s no surprise that smoking is responsible for approximately 85 percent of all lung cancer diagnoses.

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