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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 11 Other health problems |
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| | 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 |
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| | 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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