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Women smokers who have high levels of the human papilloma virus (HPV) face a 27-fold increased risk of cervical cancer compared to smokers with no HPV, according to a recent Swedish study.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that parents get the vaccine -- which guards against certain strains of human papilloma virus that can cause cervical cancer -- ideally when they're 11 and 12.
What you describe, though, sounds like a facial wart from the human papilloma virus.
 
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