Cape Town — Up to 20 percent of the global tuberculosis (TB) burden may be attributable to tobacco smoking, research has confirmed.
Karen Slama of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) and a team of researchers reviewed a large body of evidence and concluded that smoking increases TB rates. This means that tobacco increases the pool of people moving to TB disease.
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