title: [Smoking and active tuberculosis].
abstract: The link between tuberculosis and HIV infection has long been established but the link between tuberculosis and smoking is not well understood. However, many patients with tuberculosis are smokers and an increasing proportion of them live in developing countries where there is a high incidence of the disease. Smoking increases the risk of tuberculosis and of subsequent death from the disease. Henceforth, smoking cessation will become a way of controlling the tuberculosis epidemic in developing nations. This evidence must be used to mobilize an international effort to deal with these two major public health issues.
authors.affiliation: Service de pneumologie, centre de lutte antituberculeuse (CLAT 86), pavillon René-Beauchant, CHU la Milétrie, BP 577, 86021 Poitiers cedex, France. m.underner@chu-poitiers.fr
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Underner
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Perriot
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Peiffer
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ouedraogo
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gerbaud
authors.forename: J-C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Meurice
mesh_terms: D003906:Developing Countries; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000453:epidemiology