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Jump to full article: El Dorado (KS) Times, 2006-04-24
Author: STEVE SMITH Times Staff Writer

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“Cigarettes are very addictive,” she said, “because they contain nicotine, and they also have over 200 known poisons in the smoke.”

The harm cigarettes cause does not stop with their users, she said, because “cigarette smoke can also harm others who do not smoke.”

For Clements there has also been a personal side to her stand against the “many types of cancer” caused by tobacco products.

“I should know,” she said, because her grandfather “has throat cancer from many years of smoking.

“Believe me, it isn't a pretty thing to see,” she said.

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