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house. Smoking tests the immune system like few human habits; the tiny nicks and cuts to the soft lung tissue don’t just create persistent injury but force cells to divide to replace the hurt tissue. Cell division heightens the possibility for malignancy, cancer. This is just simple math, and it can be deadly.
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
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