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Heart attacks (myocardial infarcts) are the main way tobacco kills young adults in the United Kingdom, and cigarettes also cause non-fatal heart attacks. In developed countries, about half a million heart attacks occur each year among people who are still only in their thirties or forties, and more than half of these are caused by tobacco.
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Parish, S., Collins, R., Peto, R., Youngman, L., Barton, J., Jayne, K., et al.(1995) Cigarette smoking, tar yields, and non-fatal myocardial infarction: 14 000 cases and 32 000 controls in the United Kingdom. Br. Med. J., 311, 471–477
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Parish, S. et al. (2000). Cigarette smoking, tar yields and non-fatal myocardial infarct: 14 000 cases and 32 000 controls in the United Kingdom. In: Lu, R., Mackay, J., Niu, S., Peto, R. (eds) Tobacco: The Growing Epidemic. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0769-9_40
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