Smoking More Than 5 Cigarettes A Day Provokes Migraine Attacks

Tobacco acts as a precipitating factor for headaches, specifically migraines. This is indicated in a study which shows that smokers have more migraine attacks and that smoking more than five cigarettes a day triggers this headache. The work has appeared in the Journal of Headache and Pain. The influence of tobacco as a precipitating, non-causal factor of migraine attacks has produced contradictory data in scientific literature.

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Filed under: Headache / Migraine on June 27th, 2009