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    Smoking while pregnant increases the chances of spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) stillbirths and premature labor.
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    One quarter of the human brain is used to control the eyes.
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    It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
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    If your stomach didn't produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks, it would digest itself.
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    The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
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    The levels of two stress hormones, cortisol and epinephrine which suppress the body's immune system, will actually drop after a dose of laughter.
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