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Doctors believe that the decision to smoke is linked to a lower intellectual capacity. Research published in Britain suggests that smokers have lower IQs than non-smokers. The researchers found that the lowest IQs were those who smoked more cigarettes per day. Besides causing damage to health are known, smoking also affects intellectual performance. An [...]

The Brazilian black people who smoke have up to 5.21 times higher risk of developing lung cancer than Brazilian white smokers. The finding is from a research conducted by Unicamp (Universidade Estadual de Campinas), which was presented at the European Congress of Pneumology. The cancer of the lung is considered to have the highest mortality rate [...]