Pelley and good evening. This is our western edition. More than 3,200 American Children did something today that could lead to an early death they smoked their first cigarette. Thats one of the findings in a new 980page wakeup call from the Surgeon General about newly discovered dangers of smoking. 50 years after the first alarm went out that smoking causes lung cancer todays report says it causes as many as 10 other lifeshortening diseases. The report says smoking is to blame for 480,000 premature deaths a year thats up 9 . Smoking resulted in nearly 176 billion in medical costs last year. Our dr. Jon lapook talked to the Surgeon General. Cigarette smoking does affect almost every single organ in the reporter whats the significance of adding new diseases to the list of problems already known to be caused by cigarettes . Cigarette smoking does affect almost every single organ in the body. Right now of every three cancers in the united states, one of those cancers is caused by cigarette
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