Introduction: Smoking and alcohol consumption are a major public health problem. More and more are mentioned, also, these two drugs, tobacco and alcohol as risk factors for tuberculosis and mycobacteriosis.

Aim Of Study: Comparative analysis of epidemiological and clinical patients with tuberculosis and mycobacteriosis M.kansasii smoking cigarettes and abuse alcohol.

Material And Method: The study included 2025 patients with tuberculosis and 140 patients with diagnosed lung mycobacteriosis hospitalized in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Center of Pulmonology in the years 2003-2013. Data were obtained from the central database of the hospital on admission to the hospital.

Results: There were 1403 smokers (69.3%) of tuberculosis patients and 79 (56.4%) with mycobacteriosis, and alcohol dependence were 534 (26.4%) and 16 (11.4%) respectively. Both of smokers and drinkers, men prevailed. Smokers who have developed tuberculosis were significantly younger than patients with mycobacteriosis, often touched their homelessness and unemployment, and often lived in rural areas. Conversely, smokers with mycobacteriosis are people often married, professionally active. In the group of abusers, patients with tuberculosis were younger, living in the country. side, often unemployed, homeless and single compared to patients with my. cobacteriosis. The clinical picture of patients with tuberculosis and mycobacteriosis did not differ significantly between the groups.

Conclusions: A retrospective study of patients with tuberculosis and my. cobacteriosis showed significantly more use of tobacco and alcohol abuse than in the general Polish population. It should be noted that cigarette smoking and alcohol abuse are major risk and mycobacteriosis. Therefore, it is important to conduct anti-tobacco education and prevention of alcohol abuse.

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