More smoking tobacco - more pain, cancer study indicates

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" Patients with cancer who continue to smoke despite their diagnosis experience

greater pain severity than their counterparts who quit or who have never smoked,

according to new research published in the January 2011 issue of Pain.

Not only is their pain more severe, but it interferes more with their activities

of daily living, lead author ph W. Ditre, PhD, a clinical psychologist at

Texas A & M University "

Read article in Medscape Oncology : http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/734934

~chris