Supplement: Smoking and Rheumatoid Arthritis :The Scientist [2007-05-01]


	The article you are attempting to read is Premium content which is only available to our online subscribers.

Subscribing to The Scientist is easy and inexpensive.

And you can choose from many options. Try us out with an online day pass starting at only $4.95. Or, get it all with unlimited online access to The Scientist Archive and door-to-door delivery of our monthly print magazine.


	The Scientist also offers site licenses to institutions and organizations. When your librarian adds The Scientist to the library's collection, you can get unlimited online access through your place of work or study. Recommend The Scientist today



Supplement: Smoking and Rheumatoid Arthritis Recently, Lars Klareskog at the Karolinska Institute and his colleagues described a strong gene-environment interaction in a subset of people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (L. Klareskog et al., "Genes, environment, and immunity in the development of rheumatoid arthritis," Curr Opin Immunol, 18:650-5, 2006.) "It was well established that smoking is a risk factor in RA, but no one knew why," says