Dr. Sandy Says: Smoking to Stay Thin Is Unhealthy

July 08, 2013

By:

Sandra Fryhofer

Source: <a href="http://greeenapple.deviantart.com/art/smoking-causes-death-120116939" target="_blank">greenapple</a>

You may smoke to help you diet. If you stop, you may gain weight. Which is the lesser of these two evils?

Dr. Sandy examines the relative dangers of weight gain or keeping smoking.

Watch the full Your Health Matters segment below:

About the author

Sandra Fryhofer

Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, MD, MACP, FRCP is a practicing general internist and Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.

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