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A previous study has come up with alarming statistics that shows smokers to have more tendencies to be suffering from chronic back pain than non-smokers. Researchers are saying that most chronic back pain sufferers tend to turn to tobacco for relief of their ailment which is painful and can be debilitating to most. People who were surveyed showed that people who have smoked for more than 26 years are more likely to have been suffering from the discomfort of back pain for quite sometime.
The study is still underway to answer some gaps such as why consumption of tobacco in any quantity may or may not be the specific mechanism and more extensive tests on subjects must be done. Tobacco’s active ingredient, nicotine, a stimulant tends to cause a rush when it is absorbed into the body thus lessening the pain till it is flushed out of the system by the liver. How much effect it has on the overall reduction of the pain is also indirectly linked to the length and quantity of product use. This gives light to the fact that tobacco users are more prone to suffer from some undiscovered disease due to the effects of nicotine.