Nicotine may protect against the development of multiple sclerosis,
according to researchers from the Institute of Environmental Medicine
at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. In looking for possible causes
and risk factors involved in developing MS, a group of researchers in
Sweden have examined several possibilities, including smoking and
nicotine use.
In a recent study published online, ahead of print, in the journal
Multiple Sclerosis, researchers aimed to investigate the influence of
moist snuff use on the risk of developing MS while taking smoking habits
into consideration (Hedström, 2013). A prior study conducted at the
Karolinska Institutet indicated that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is associated with increased MS risk
(Hedström, 2011). The same research group had determined that smoking,
but not the use of Swedish snuff, increased the risk of MS (Hedström,
2009).
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Does nicotine protect against MS?
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