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If you must be inside with a smoker, limit the amount of time you are there and be sure the area is well-ventilated

106 A study of otherwise healthy young male military recruits demonstrated that relatively short durations of smoking produce significant loss of bone mineral density, highlighting the fact that a person doesnt have to be a lifetime smoker to have bone loss

Many smokers dont want to quit and also dont want to be told to quit

Evidence for causal effects of lifetime smoking on risk for depression and schizophrenia: a Mendelian randomisation study

Timothy Mousseau, an ecologist at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, told the journal Nature: "It really makes me wonder: might these birds show a preference for cigarette brands high in nicotine

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