Health: How smoking causes lasting damage to the immune system – Health

Smoking is at the top of the list of risk factors that can be influenced. The fact that consuming cigarettes is harmful to one’s health is of course not a new finding – but why smokers are more susceptible to infections than non-smokers has so far only been guessed at. Now a new study from France shows how smoking impairs the immune system – and why the risk of various diseases is increased long after the last cigarette.