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Successful lung cancer surgery not enough to break nicotine dependence in many smokers
12-11-2006 · EurekAlert!A new study has found that close to half of 154 smokers who had surgery to remove early stage lung cancer picked up a cigarette again within 12 months of their potentially curative operation, and more than one-third were smoking at the one year mark. Sixty percent of patients who started smoking again did so within two months of surgery.
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