Smoking Boosts Risk for Root Canal

Yahoo News reports:

Cigarette smokers have something new to add to their list of reasons to quit: Research shows they are 70 percent more likely to need a root canal than nonsmokers.

"The findings substantiate what most of us already know: smoking is detrimental to your health," study author Elizabeth Krall Kaye, an epidemiologist at the Boston VA Hospital and a professor in the department of health policy and health services at Boston University's School of Dental Medicine, said in a prepared statement.

Heh.