According to studies within 12 hours of quitting, the level of carbon monoxide in the blood drops to normal
reported that patients with a smoking history had higher risks of vascular complications, especially arterial ones than non-smokers after liver transplantation, while patients, who gave up smoking for 2 years prior to transplantation, had lower incidence of vascular complications ( Although numerous epidemiological studies supported the finding that CS is an important risk factor for organ transplantation, there was a lack of the proof that smoking can directly cause allograft failure in a cause-effect manner
Bertrand Dautzenberg, president of the Paris Sans Tabac association and a lung specialist, said that this is a win for the tobacco lobby, and that the change will harm public health
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Next week: The cost (literally) of smoking.