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Normally, oral bacteria are swallowed and pass through the digestive system, but smoking seems to enable them to colonize the gut mucosa
A study published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation 5 found no significant differences in heart attacks, heart failure, or strokes among dual-smokersthose using a combination of traditional cigarettes and e-cigarettescompared to those who smoked traditional cigarettes only
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Support groups: Connecting with others who are quitting can provide motivation and shared strategies
World Bank studies have found high levels of poverty, poor housing, food insecurity, and reliance on government benefits among tobacco and clove farmers, and they attribute Indonesias import of 3040% of the tobacco it consumes to the fact that farming is an insufficiently lucrative endeavour