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TREATMENT BRIEFS: New Study Results: Smoking Is Still Bad for You

Gay Men's Health Crisis: Treatment Issues, Volume 7 no. 5 - May, 1993
David Gold

Two reports provide new evidence that smoking accelerates progression to AIDS in HIV-positive individuals. A British study reported in AIDS (May 1993: 705-710) compared 43 HIV-positive smokers (at least ten cigarettes per day) with 41 HIV-positive non- smokers. The study found that the smokers progressed to AIDS in a median time of 8.2 months compared with 14.5 months for the nonsmokers. In addition, an abstract submitted to a joint meeting of the Association of American Physicians and five other organizations in Washington, D.C. suggests that smoking may increase the load of HIV in the lungs and accelerate the progression to AIDS. For more information, see "Tobacco Smoking and HIV" in Treatment Issues (December, 1992).

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