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Background and Aim
While major efforts were made studying the complex etiology of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) including environmental factors, less is known about underlying causes leading to the heterogeneous and highly variable course of disease. As cigarette smoking cessation is the best‐known environmental factor with beneficial effect in Crohn's disease (CD), more exposome factors are likely...