An Ohio man suffered a strange and slightly embarrassing side effect as a result of smoking tobacco and taking antibiotics.
The 64-year-old man went to a doctor two weeks after he first noticed his tongue had started to change colour. About three weeks before his visit to the doctor, he had completed a course of clindamycin, an antibiotic, for a gum infection.
He was also a self-reported smoker, though how long he'd been smoking and how much he smoked were unclear. In a case study from the New England Journal of Medicine, the authors did not indicate whether the condition was caused specifically by smoking, antibiotics or a combination of the two.
