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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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