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Jump to full article: Columbia (SC) State, 2008-04-03
Intro: Smoking study details
* About 21 percent of U.S. adults are smokers -- about 22 percent in South Carolina.
* Smoking-related diseases kill about one in 10 adults worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
* The genetic research on smokers involved only white people of European descent. Blacks and Asians will be studied soon, and the results might be different, scientists said.
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