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16 Oct Cigarettes? Or 450 Million More Years of Life?

Posted at 06:18h in Better Breathing, COPD Research, Heart & Metabolic Heath, Smoking Cessation 0 Comments

The smoking habit kills 7 million people a year, according to the World Health Organization. A few weeks ago we published...

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