CDC: People with disabilities smoke more (AP)

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CDC: People with disabilities smoke more

By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer

ATLANTA - Americans with disabilities smoke more than everyone else, according to the first national study to compare smoking rates between the two groups.

About one in four disabled people are smokers, compared to about one in five among the non-disabled, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday.

More people with disabilities also said they'd seen a doctor or nurse recently, and had been advised to quit cigarettes, the CDC study found.

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