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Many smokers are curious about how native cigarettes differ from more commonly known brands like Marlboro or Camel, and whether these differences impact quality, taste, and overall smoking experience

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Whilst that is true for cancer, it doesnt seem to be true for heart disease or stroke. Writing in the BMJ, Hackshaw and colleagues describe how they looked at data from 55 published reports, covering 141 studies carried out between 1946 and 2015 and involving several million people in total, to examine the impact of smoking on coronary heart disease or stroke

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