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Were Cigarettes Once Used to Treat Asthma?

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11 June 2021

Were Cigarettes Once Used to Treat Asthma?

Modern readers might be quite surprised to learn that a common remedy for asthma symptoms was once something that now seems the most unlikely of treatments.

David Mikkelson reports.

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