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Within one year of quitting smoking, the risk of coronary heart disease falls to approximately half that of a current smoker

Funding This work was supported by an internal grant from Penn State Social Science Research Institute and Cancer Institute (PI: SJW)

Smoking tobacco can also lower a persons blood oxygen levels and is the leading risk factor for developing lung cancer