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Male smokers are more likely to develop osteoporosis, suffer bone fractures and die early.
Smoking is a major risk factor for osteoporosis and risk of fracture, and men tend to smoke more than women, increasing their risk for osteoporosis, which has traditionally been thought of as a women's disease.
Male smokers break bones disproportionately and are more likely to develop osteoporosis, which causes bones to become porous and break easily.
You can add more risk of broken bones to the long list of health harms that smoking poses to men.
You can add more risk of broken bones to the long list of health harms that smoking poses to men.
A UNLV research team analyzed nearly 30,000 broken bone cases reported over the past three decades in 27 research publications and found that smoking increases the risk of breaking a bone by as much as 37%.