Ivanhoe Newswire: Smoking linked to brain damage in MS patients

Release Date: August 19, 2009 This content is archived.

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An article on Ivanhoe Newswire reports that people with multiple sclerosis who smoked for as little as six months during their lifetime exhibited more destruction of brain tissue and more brain atrophy than MS patients who never smoked, according to a UB study.

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