@Article{Scott2016, journal="Tobacco Prevention \& Cessation", volume="2", number="April Supplement", year="2016", title="Cigarette smoking and bacterial infection", abstract="Smoking cigarettes and exposure to tobacco environmental smoke increase the risk for many bacterial infections and / or exacerbates the symptoms of others. Many such infections can be life threatening. The underlying reasons for increased susceptibility are less clear. This talk will introduce examples of smoking-related bacterial diseases; and the concepts of tobacco-augmented bacterial virulence; and immune system dysregulation that may decrease resistance to microbial infections.", author="Scott, David", doi="10.18332/tpc/62417", url="https://doi.org/10.18332/tpc/62417" }