Surprising Link Smoking Increases Incidents of MS in Women

The second thing that increases the risk of multiple sclerosis is smoking So smoking increases the risk of MS by approxi mately 50% And it explains up to 40% of the increased incidence of MS in women So that's a pretty big number and they've looked at some studies So you know before World War II very few women smoked But then the numbers of the women smoking rapidly increased post-war And it kind of mirrored the increased incidents of MS as well So there have been multiple validated studies that show that smoking increases MS