Heavy cigarette smoking is strongly linked to early atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, and smoking cessation could avert many premature coronary deaths.
Does smoking cessation prevent deaths from coronary heart disease?
Persuading the public to stop smoking could avert many premature deaths from coronary heart disease.
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Strong circumstantial evidence links heavy cigarette smoking with early atherosclerosis and its follower—oronary heart disease. At least 600,000 persons die each year of coronaries, many prematurely. If physicians could persuade the public to stop smoking, many of these deaths could be averted.
Joseph T. Doyle (Sun,) reported a other. Heavy cigarette smoking is strongly linked to early atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, and smoking cessation could avert many premature coronary deaths.
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