Research indicates that smoking can contribute to conditions like spinal stenosis and degenerative disc disease, with a higher risk of issues in the lumbar spine. If you have back pain ...

This 65-year-old woman with an 80-pack-year history of cigarette smoking, as well as a history of type 2 diabetes and diverticulitis, presented with fatigue, low-back pain, and diarrhea.

Smoking can make this complication more likely ... press on a spinal nerve, and cause back pain. In a diskectomy, the surgeon removes all or part of the disk. They may have to make a big cut ...