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While many smokers know that smoking causes cancer and harms the lungs and heart, the new report highlights how it also damages: bones and muscles: smoking has a negative impact on bone mineral density, and causes progressive harm to the musculoskeletal system, including: 25% increased risk of any fracture, and a 40% increase in the risk of hip fractures among men slower healing after injury increased risk of back and neck pain, leading to a 79% increase in chronic back pain, and a 114% increase in disabling lower back pain rheumatoid arthritis, and a reduction in the impact of treatment brain: current smokers are 53% more likely to develop cognitive impairment than non-smokers, and 59% more likely to develop Alzheimers disease teeth: smoking increases the likelihood of tooth loss and decay eyes: smoking damages sight by increasing the risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) by 78% to 358%, and increasing the risk of age-related cataracts With New Years resolutions approaching and two-thirds of smokers saying they want to quit, new adverts are being used to graphically illustrate the degeneration that smoking causes

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