Cigarette smoking accelerates progression of alcoholic chronic pancreatitis

Smoking is a recognised risk factor for pancreatic cancer and has been associated with chronic pancreatitis and also with type II diabetes.The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of tobacco on the age of diagnosis of pancreatitis and progression of disease, as measured by the appearance of calcification and diabetes.We used data from a retrospective cohort of 934 patients with chronic alcoholic pancreatitis where information on...