Abstract
These studies suggest that smoking is associated with higher rates of delayed and nonunion, longer time to union, and greater requirement for secondary surgery to stimulate union following tibial fracture. Smokers also tended to have higher rates of complication (eg, flap failure and infection), but none of the reported differences in serious complications achieved statistical significance.
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