Surveying 6,000 Kentucky women, UK researchers found that former smokers showed a 20 percent increase in chronic pain compared with non-smokers, while occasional smokers showed a 68 percent increase and daily smokers showed a 104 percent increase.
In fact, daily smoking was associated more strongly with chronic pain than older age, lower educational attainment, obesity or living in an Appalachian county.
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