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You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
Dramatist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Fresno
California
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Smoking
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Cancer
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