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Can acute bronchitis be attributed to smoking?
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Partially: Smoking will make the bronchitis worse.
Answered 2/4/2013
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Indirectly: If you smoke, you irritate the lungs & trigger extra mucous flow. That mucus is food for germs. If you supply the extra germ food & inhale the right germs you create the conditions for bronchitis to emerge.
Answered 12/30/2017
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