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Smokers Cough Treatment
A large European study has found that doctors are more likely to prescribe antibiotics to smokers who come to them with coughs, but the drugs don't help them any more than they help non-smokers. Statistics suggest that people who smoke are more prone to respiratory infections and pneumonia. But there is no hard evidence that antibiotics will benefit smokers more than they do non-smokers.
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