Smoking in the morning is twice as likely to kill you

 
Scientists just found another reason to feel guilty about an early morning
coffee-and-cigarette — apparently people who smoke first thing in the
morning are twice as likely to develop cancer as smokers who wait even
an hour longer into the day to light up. Regardless of the duration or
frequency of their habit, the morning smokers studied had far higher levels
of nicotine in their systems than other study participants.
Researchers undertook the study in hopes of determining why some smokers
contract cancers and others manage to avoid it, and they may actually be
onto something with this. "Smokers who light up soon after waking tend to
smoke each cigarette more intensively," explained one researcher. "So the
most likely explanation of this finding is that the sooner a smoker lights up,
the more smoke is taken into the lungs, and the higher the level of exposure
to cancer causing chemicals."
Next step: turning this new finding into a graphic, terrifying cartoon to add
to the side of cigarette boxes.