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Reply To: Does smoking make recurrence more likely?

greytide 2 months ago

There is a genuine association in the literature between smoking and both persistence of HPV and recurrence of warts. It is not the only factor and stopping is not a treatment, but it is one of the few things on the list you can actually act on.

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