| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 11 Other health problems |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour |
| Other health problems: Miscellaneous Health Problems |
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| Transdermal nicotine provokes gastroesophageal reflux and heartburn. Crohn's |
| disease is primarily a disease of smokers, and smoking exacerbates symptoms. In |
| contrast, nicotine promotes healing in ulcerative colitis, which is primarily a disease of |
| nonsmokers. |
| Nicotine Safety and Toxicity, p. 165 |
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| In a study from the Mayo Clinic, transdermal nicotine was associated with |
| improvement of 39% of nonsmoking patients with ulcerative colitis, compared to 9% |
| of patients on placebo patches. |
| Annals of Internal Medicine, March 1, 1997, p. 364 |
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| In a report from Norway, 90% of nonsmoking mothers were breast feeding at three |
| months, compared to 65% of smokers. Many of the latter had stopped early because |
| of "too little milk." 40% of infants breast fed by smokers had infantile colic, compared |
| to 26% of the babies of nonsmokers. |
| JAMA, January 6, 1989, p. 42 |
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| Smoking is a risk factor for low back pain. Industrial workers who smoked at baseline |
| had a 40% higher incidence of back pain during a four-year follow-up period. |
| Spine, February 1989, p. 141 |
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| In an Army infantry training unit, there was a threefold higher rate of lower back and |
| lower extremity injury among smokers compared to nonsmokers. |
| American Journal of Preventive Medicine 10:145, 1994 |
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