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The role of smoking in the initiation and aggravation of obstructive lung disease is well-established but its influence on restrictive lung conditions is by no means as certain. So, we have examined our recordsretrospectively to discover whether we should take account of smoking habits in the interpretation of routine lung function in such patients. To do this we have taken groups of 250 patients, with scoliosis, pulmonary sarcoidosis, or cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis and compared their data with those of 165 healthy people, 100 patients with asbestosis and 50 patients with pleural tumours. The information available allowed us to put members of each group into two categories; those who presently or previously smoked, and those who had not.
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Denison, D.M., Du Bois, R., Sawicka, E. (1983), Does the Lung Work? 6. Pictures in the mind. Br. J. Dis. Chest, 77, 35–50
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Denison, D., Law, M., Al-Hillawi, H., Geddes, D. (1984). Does Smoking have any Influence on the Course of Restrictive Lung Disease. In: Cumming, G., Bonsignore, G. (eds) Smoking and the Lung. Ettore Majorana International Science Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2409-6_24
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