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Mercury vapors enter the body through the mucous membranes and the lungs, for example, and are stored in the central nervous system and the kidneys, where they develop their toxic effect

The combination of increased heart rate and elevated blood pressure places strain on the heart and blood vessels

The rules seem designed to acknowledge its potential for harm reduction compared to smoking, while still keeping a tight rein on promotion to stop non-smokers from picking it up

Over this same period, smoking-attributable lung cancer death rates declined 2.7% per year and smoking-unrelated lung cancer death rates declined 1.8% per year

Many of those chemicals are poisonous and at least 69 of them are linked to cancer