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To the Editor: We describe a woman with Behçet's syndrome characterized by recurrent oral and genital aphthous ulcers, severe eye involvement, and the onset of arthritis at the age of 29 years. She had started smoking at the age of 17 and regularly smoked 20 cigarettes a day (total history of smoking, approximately 20 pack-years). At the age of 35, during a remission of symptoms of Behçet's syndrome, she stopped smoking without the use of nicotine-replacement therapy. Within two weeks after she had quit, several large and extremely painful buccal aphthous ulcers developed, with no genital involvement. These ulcerations were . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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