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Age and Vulnerability to Smoke, Health Channel

The American Cancer Society says the younger you start smoking, the more addicted you become. Rodney Benjamin, Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine Physician at South Miami Hospital, believes younger people are more vulnerable, because they don´t have any sense of their mortality. He points out it is a scary age for dangerous behavior and smoking is a dangerous behavior.

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