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Smoking in other--cigars or chewing tobacco also
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causes cancer because the chemicals
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in cigarette smoke or in tobacco, in particular.
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Some of the tars that are associated with smoking
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cause cancer of the lung in particular.
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This was first noticed by looking at epidemiological data.
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We talked about public health and epidemiology a few weeks ago
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where you look at how diseases appear in populations
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and you try to figure out why things are changing.
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Here's as cigarettes were consumed more in the U.S.,
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you can see the trend in cigarette consumption
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going up over time from 1900 to 1950.