| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 11 Other health problems |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour |
| Other health problems: HIV |
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| HIV-seropositive patients who smoke have a substantially increased risk for |
| developing bacterial pneumonia compared with nonsmokers with HIV infection. |
| JAMA, August 17, 1994, p. 564 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| In HIV positive patients, progression time to full-blown AIDS is significantly reduced in |
| smokers (mean 8.2 months) compared to nonsmokers (mean 14.5 months). Smokers |
| also developed pneumocystis carinii pneumonia more rapidly (9 months) compared to 16 months for nonsmokers. |
| Tobacco Control, Spring 1993, p. 157 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| HIV-infected patients who smoke develop full-blown AIDS twice as quickly as |
| nonsmokers infected with HIV. In a four year study period, smokers with the virus were nearly twice as likely to die of AIDS. |
| American Medical News, June 14, 1993 |
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| Page 13 of 32 |
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