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Its easy to look at these negatives and blame smokers for being irresponsible or morally corrupt. Its much harder to empathize with them, to find ways of helping smokers deal with their addiction

It has also been well-documented that smoking cigarettes suppresses and slows down pulmonary clearance of acute bacterial infections and exacerbates infection-induced lung inflammation and damage, enhancing susceptibility to respiratory infections [4,5,6,7,8,9]

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3 Most health-care providers would agree that the decrease in morbidity and mortality associated with smoking cessation far outweighs the health risks associated with post-cessation weight gain