| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 11 Other health problems |
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| Other health problems: Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, hearing loss |
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| Nicotine patch therapy shows promise in the treatment of children with Tourette's |
| syndrome, a condition affecting 100,000 people in the United States and marked by |
| facial tics and often uncontrollable movements and vocalizations. |
| San Francisco Chronicle, February 22, 2000, p. A2 |
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| Cigarette smoking may play a role in age-related hearing loss. In a study from |
| Wisconsin of 3700 adults ages 48 and older, current cigarette smokers were 1.7 |
| times as likely to have hearing loss as nonsmokers. |
| JAMA, June 3, 1998, p. 1715 |
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| Smoking causes long-term but reversible adverse effects on the ability to smell. |
| JAMA, March 2, 1990, p. 1233 |
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