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We don't have the long-term studies to show the effects of COPD [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease] or cancer, but our concerns are that its very similar in the way that it took years for us to figure out that tobacco led to, with definite science, led to things like cancer and development of COPD, Rizzo added

Moreover, tobacco use is responsible for 71% of all lung cancer deaths and 42% of all chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases

Whether celebratory or critical, proponents of this story agree that Western cigarette corporate representatives developed new technologies, business forms, and commodities at home and then scaled them up and exported them whole cloth around the world, where they transformed more passive and primitive (or undeveloped) societies