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Cigarettes, electronic vapor devices, and other products that contain nicotine can cause serious health effects such as heart and lung diseases that make it difficult for users to breathe normally.

WORDS TO UNDERSTAND

cognitive: related to the mind, particularly a person’s ability to think and problem solve emphysema: a lung disease that progressively worsens and ultimately results in death half-life: the time a substance or drug lasts in a person’s body before being metabolized inflammation: swelling in the tissues of the body, caused by disease or medicines stimulant: a drug or substance that temporarily increases levels of physiological or nervous activity in the body and brain toxicity: the level of damage caused by a poisonous substance

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Nicotine Treatments: Fighting to Breathe Again