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Cigarettes can delay bone healing and fracture repairSmoking cigarettes has long been known to have detrimental effects on the body, contributing to problems such as heart disease and lung cancer. Research has also shown that smoking cigarettes has significant effects on the bones that make up your skeleton.
What evidence shows these effects of smoking on the bone?
Why are bones affected by smoking?
What does all this mean?
Sources:
Chen F, "Smoking and bony union after ulna-shortening osteotomy" Am J Orthop. 2001 Jun;30(6):486-9.
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