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Previous studies suggested several mechanisms, the most probable being a decrease of thyroid-stimulating hormone by smoking and alcohol consumption. Smoking, lower risk Shin and colleagues analyzed data from 22,809,391 adults aged at least 20 years between 2009 and 2012, using data from Korean National Health Insurance database, a populationbased longitudinal cohort study
Vaping is too new to be linked to cancer, but experts say theres a potential risk
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