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During dental diagnosis and treatment, you can see the bad effects of smoking, such as making periodontal disease harder to heal. Advice from dentists to give up smoking is effective, and I would like the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to consider relaxing its response and allowing prescriptions as an exception.

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