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<font face="Arial"><i><b>Psoriasis and cigarette smoking.</b></i></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 10"><b><font size="2" face="Arial">Chodorowska G, Kwiatek 
J.</font></b></p>
<p style="margin-left: 10"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Chair and Department of 
Dermatology, Skubiszewski Medical University of Lublin.<br>
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Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease, whose prevalence in population is connected 
with interaction between genetic and environmental factors. Clinical 
observations indicate that cigarette smoking is an important environmental 
factor exacerbating the course of the disease and provoking its consecutive 
relapses. The harmful influence of smoking is connected with inducing of 
inflammatory mediators taking part in pathogenic phenomena in the skin of 
psoriatic patients. Psoriasis is observed more frequently in smokers than in 
general population. Vast spread of the smoking habit among the psoriatic 
patients can be related to the lowered quality of life due to the emotional 
problems and difficulties in the family and social life caused by the chronic 
disease.</font></p>

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