obama daughter smoking a cigarette PHOTOS: Malia spotted in public Former president Barack Obama's first daughter, Malia Obama, was spotted smoking cigarettes in Los Angeles barely weeks after her younger sister, Sasha's public smoking incident Former first daughter Sasha Obama

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Head of WHOs Tobacco Control Program, Vinayak Prasad tells VOA a plethora of scientific studies over the past year confirm smokers face a 50% higher risk of developing severe disease and death from COVID-19

Quitting smoking cigarettesor another nicotine-containing productinterrupts this cycle, but because your body is dependent on having the drug in your system, it also causes your body to go through withdrawal

While smoking is a recognized risk factor for developing blood cancers, this is the first study to identify discrete genetic mutations that are associated with smoking, to establish a dose-response relationship between smoking and genetic mutations (the more you smoke, the more mutations occur)