One apparent advantage of cigarette smoking has baffled doctors: smokers who have heart attacks are less likely to die in hospital than non-smokers. But a survey of 1743 New Zealand patients reported in the British Medical Journal (vol 315, p 992) has an explanation. Fewer smokers survive long enough to make it to hospital, says a team at Auckland University.
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