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Cigarette Smoking, Substance Abuse, Nutritional Status, and Immune Function

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Substance abuse, smoking, poor nutrition, and depressed immune function often cooccur in high-risk human populations. Studies of drug-addicted populations in the era of AIDS are beginning to bring increased attention and effort to characterizing nutritional and immune status. Similarly, more attention is being directed at nutritional and immunological status of smokers using new methodologies. However, to date, no clear hypotheses of causal biological links between tobacco smoke components, specific drugs, specific nutritional deficiencies, and specific syndromes of immune dysfunction have been proposed and tested.

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  1. Division of Rheumatology/Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    M. Eric Gershwin MD

  2. Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    J. Bruce German PhD

  3. Department of Nutrition, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    Carl L. Keen PhD

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Golub, M.S. (2000). Cigarette Smoking, Substance Abuse, Nutritional Status, and Immune Function. In: Gershwin, M.E., German, J.B., Keen, C.L. (eds) Nutrition and Immunology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-709-3_22

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