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In 2010 more than 200,000 people died from coronary heart disease due to smokeless tobacco use

Loss of Oxygen Carbon monoxide is a harmful chemical in cigarette smoke that cuts off the oxygen supply to the lips and skin causing severe blackish-blue burns on the surface of the lips

Overactivation of PARP-1 produces long chain, branched polymers of poly (ADP-ribose) that induce nuclear translocation of the mitochondrial proteins Apoptosis-Inducing Factor (AIF) and Endonuclease G (EndoG) 21,23

Standard imaging of the skeletal, cardiovascular, and ocular systems is done to detect any clinically relevant structural abnormalities and to provide information contributing to the diagnostic criteria (eg, echocardiography to identify aortic root enlargement)