Effect of Cigarette Smoking on Gastric Secretions of Patients with Duodenal Ulcer

Abstract

MANY clinical opinions on the effect of smoking on gastric secretions have been expressed, but a careful review of the literature fails to reveal any studies sufficiently detailed or adequately controlled to substantiate such opinions scientifically.Haag¹ believed that the effects of smoking on the gastrointestinal tract were variable, depending on which of the autonomie ganglionic systems was more stimulated.Gray² reported that 50 of 63 patients with duodenal ulcer showed an increase in the volume of gastric secretion after smoking, and a fourth of the patients showed a concomitant rise of gastric acidity. Schnedorf and Ivy³ found that gastric . . .