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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US); National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (US); Office on Smoking and Health (US). How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US); 2010.

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How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease: A Report of the Surgeon General.

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Illustration of the respiratory tract shows the nasal cavity (sinuses), epiglottis, upper respiratory tract, lower respiratory tract, bronchi, nasopharynx, oropharynx, larynx and trachea.

Figure 7.1Lung defenses

Source: Cook 2000. Reprinted with permission from Elsevier Health, © 2000.

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