Smoking more than 5 cigarettes a day provokes migraine attacks

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 09:42 in Health & Medicine

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.

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