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Although the benefits of giving up smoking are well known, doctors believe they have identified the first apparent health hazard of kicking the habit, an increased risk of a rare but serious intestinal disease called ulcerative colitis. Their research also confirms that people who continue to smoke have a somewhat lower risk of the disease than do those who never smoked. Dr. Edward J. Boyko, a researcher at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, reported his findings in today’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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