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When Rhodes and his colleagues (1) described the tendency for patients with ulcerative colitis to be non-smokers it would have been natural to assume that medical advice as a consequence of developing chronic illness had led those who had colitis and who were smokers to stop smoking. The other possibility was that the fracture clinic controls chosen were unrepresentative of the ordinary population and contained an unduly large proportion of smokers. This latter explanation was unlikely, however, because only 8% of the colitic patients were smokers and it, therefore, became necessary to confirm the original observation and to determine if the smoking habits of the patients were habits which antedated illness onset.
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Langman, M.J.S. (1990). Smoking and Inflammatory Bowel Disease. In: Rachmilewitz, D., Zimmerman, J. (eds) Inflammatory Bowel Diseases 1990. Developments in Gastroenterology, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1980-8_6
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