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3/7/2008

Researchers at the George Institute for International Health in Sydney, Australia, report that smoking increases the already elevated risk of a hemorrhagic stroke faced by people with high blood pressure. Hemorrhagic strokes are especially debilitating, since about half of the people who have one die as a result of it and many survivors are left with paralysis or other debilitating effects.