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The subjective effects of smoking on nasal symptoms
M M Collins1, M Hawthorne, K el-Hmd
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, North Riding Infirmary, Middlesbrough, UK.
Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences
|September 3, 1999
Abstract:
One hundred and forty-four volunteers completed a validated questionnaire, to investigate the association between smoking, non-smoking and passive smoking status, and the degree of a range of 10 common nasal symptoms. Logistic regression showed that smokers were four times and passive smokers six times more likely to report hyposmia compared to non-smokers. No significant differences were found between the three groups for any of the other nine symptoms.