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Smoking is one of the most common forms of recreational drug use. Tobacco smoking is today by far the most popular form of smoking and is practiced by over one billion people in the majority of all human societies.Most drugs that are smoked are considered to be addictive.Rates of smoking have leveled off or declined in the developed world but continue to rise in developing countries. Smoking rates in the United States have dropped by half from 1965 to 2006, falling from 42% to 20.8% in adults.
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loveandwar
04/27/09 at 8:42 am

i think that because we are so developed people acully believe the health risks of smoking
but in developing counties they just cant take our woord for it they have to figure it out on their own


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