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Does any cubic polynomial become reducible through composition with some quadratic?

What I mean to ask is this: given an irreducible cubic polynomial $P(X)\in \mathbb{Z}[X]$ is there always a quadratic $Q(X)\in \mathbb{Z}[X]$ such that $P(Q)$ is reducible (as a polynomial, and then ...
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