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Smoking causes a wide range of diseases.

Smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 yearly deaths. Despite this, around 36.5 million U.S. individuals continue to smoke, and another 16 million live with a disease related to smoking.

Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, explains the motivation for the research