Even when adjustments made for age, alcohol consumption, prior acute pancreatitis and other factors, smoking comes out as doubling changes of chronic pancreatitis disease
Pancreatology. 2010 Mar 20;10(1):54-59. [Epub ahead of print]
Cigarette Smoking Is Independently Associated with Chronic Pancreatitis.
Law R, Parsi M, Lopez R, Zuccaro G, Stevens T. abstract here
Comment – chronic pancreatitis can be a miserable disease. If this could help then they need to stop smoking!