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If I don’t smoke, can I still get tuberculosis?
If tuberculosis is a lung disease, am I at less of a risk if I don't smoke? How does that work?
3 Answers
Yes, indeed you can.
No matter if you smoke or not, you can get TB. 12% of people that were exposed develop the disease over their life.
Tuberculosis this is an infectious disease that can affect smokers and nonsmokers.