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Smokers More Likely To Have Back Pain

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Publication date: Jul 1, 2008

A 2003 study of 8,000 people conducted by the Robert Koch institute discovered that people who smoked for longer than 16 years, whether or not they still smoked, were twice as likely to suffer from back pain than those people who smoked for less than ten years.

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