Ask the Doctors: Smoking & the Heart; Cardiovascular Disease vs Heart Disease

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I understand how smoking can cause lung cancer, but would you please explain how smoking affects the heart?

Most people associate cigarette smoking with lung cancer, but smokers are two to four times more likely to die from a heart attack than nonsmokers.

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