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Former or current smokers had about a 1 in 1,300 chance of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Lou Gehrig's disease -- compared with about a 1 in 2,000 chance for those who don't smoke, a study in the Archives of Neurology found. Researchers also learned that the risk of developing the disea

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