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Meta-analysis: Tobacco smoking may enhance the risk of acute pancreatitis.

​A significant increase in acute pancreatitis risk is associated with both current and former smokers.

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Smoking as risk factor for chronic kidney disease: systematic review.

​Cigarette smoking may contribute to the rapid progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD).

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Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States.

​Unhealthy lifestyle and dietary habits, such as cigarette smoking, alcohol intake, physical inactivity, and consumption of diets high in red and processed meats and low in fruits, vegetables, fiber, and calcium, may increase an individual's risk of developing cancer.

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Adherence to a Healthy Lifestyle is Associated With a Lower Risk of Diverticulitis among Men.

​Adoption of healthy lifestyle habits, such as consuming of diets low in meat and high in fiber, exercising regularly, maintenance of healthy weight, and avoidance of cigarette smoking, may help protect individuals from diverticulitis.

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Cigarette smoking and the risk of mucinous and nonmucinous epithelial ovarian cancer.

​Cigarette smoking may promote the development of mucinous type of epithelial ovarian cancer in women.

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A prospective cohort study of cigarette smoking and pancreatic cancer in Japan.

​Individuals who are cigarette smokers may be highly vulnerable to pancreatic cancer.

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Smoking increases rectal cancer risk to the same extent in women as in men: results from a Norwegian cohort study.

Smoking is associated with increased predisposition to rectal cancer in both men and women.

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Smoking and risk of age-related cataract: a meta-analysis.

​Cigarette smoking may promote the development of some types of age-related cataracts, such as nuclear and posterior subcapsular cataracts.

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Smoking and the risk of age-related macular degeneration: a meta-analysis.

​Cigarette smokers, especially current smokers, may have a high tendency of developing age-related macular degeneration.

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Tobacco and the risk of pancreatic cancer: a review and meta-analysis.

​Cigarette smoking may be a major contributing factor to the development of pancreatic cancer.

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Smoking: A risk factor for development of low back pain in adolescents.

​Low back pain is more likely to occur in adolescents who are smokers than in those who are non-smokers.

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The association between smoking and low back pain: a meta-analysis.

​Current and previous cigarette smokers may have a high risk of suffering from low back pain.

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