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home:special:smoking [05.02.2011] – external edit 127.0.0.1home:special:smoking [08.24.2011] – [Smoking and Chlamydia pneumoniae] paulalbert
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 Smoking, an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease, has also been shown to be an independent risk factor for //C. pneumoniae// seropositivity. It has also been suggested that an exacerbation of //C. pneumoniae// infection through smoking cigarettes may increase the potential for a systemic infection and therefore increase the chance for development of atherosclerosis.(({{pubmed>long:10839723}})) Smoking, an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease, has also been shown to be an independent risk factor for //C. pneumoniae// seropositivity. It has also been suggested that an exacerbation of //C. pneumoniae// infection through smoking cigarettes may increase the potential for a systemic infection and therefore increase the chance for development of atherosclerosis.(({{pubmed>long:10839723}}))
  
 +===== Alternatives to smoking =====
  
 +Certain pharmaceutical preparations such as Nicorette gum contain nicotine for the treatment of tobacco dependence. Because as discussed above, nicotine appears to interfere with immune function, such smoking alternatives may impair patients' progress on the Marshall Protocol.
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