Can daily smoking of tobacco lead to a bad back?
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"Professor Michael Cousins said the research suggested their smoking was interfering with pain transmitters, causing osteoporosis or affecting their spine-related blood circulation.
The condition resulted in chronic lower back pain which could also trigger a "downward spiral" in a person's life, he warned. "
"Chronic pain is now regarded as a disease in its own right," said Prof Cousins, director of the Pain Management Research Institute at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital.
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