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Tobacco degrades cartilage

Research results have confirmed the damaging link between nicotine addiction and cartilage degeneration.

This study focussed particularly on the knee joints. Analysing 271 adults of average age, it was observed that the joint cartilage of smokers had atrophied. The more packets of cigarettes the subject smoked, the greater the degeneration seemed to be: yet another irrefutable argument to convince those who are reluctant to give up smoking.