4-12 weeks The toxins in smoke increase the strain on your heart (by making it pump blood harder and faster), and narrow your arteries
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In 1559, Francisco Hernndez de Toledo, Spanish chronicler of the Indies, was the first European to bring tobacco seeds to the Old World, following orders of King Philip II of Spain
Cardiovascular and Mortality Risk by Initiation Age Compared with nonsmokers, individuals who started smoking early and accumulated heavy exposure had more than double the risk of MI (HR 2.43), a markedly increased risk of stroke (HR 1.78), combined stroke or MI (HR 2.00), and elevated all-cause mortality (HR 1.82)
Whether entirely factual or burnished by the passage of time, this kind of reputation speaks to what a brand like Black Maria represented: a guarantee, pressed into tin and driven through tobacco, that the product inside was what it claimed to be