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All of these conditions are additive, making your heart work harder to pump blood around your body

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The human format of cigarettes, again, plays an important role

Among middle school students, it declined from 2.3% (2015) to 1.1% (2024), with rates remaining near or below roughly one to two percent in the early 2020s