CNN (5/10, Weiner, News) reports that several former smokers are sharing their stories as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s national Tips from Former Smokers campaign. One woman shares that although she had recently quit smoking, “it was too late for her teeth.” She had “23 extracted at once.”
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