Smoking Tobacco 'May Trigger Mental Illness'
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The subscription service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.Smoking tobacco, already known to cause cancer and stroke, may be also be a contributor to mental illness, a new study suggests.
Researchers at King's College London have found that people who suffer from psychosis are about three times more likely to be smokers.
Although the association between smoking cigarettes and psychosis - particularly schizophrenia - has been acknowledged before, little attention has been directed towards the possibility that cigarettes themselves may increase the risk of psychosis.
The researchers analysed data from 61 observational studies involving almost 15,000 tobacco users and 273,000 non-users.
The study also showed that daily smokers became psychotic around a year earlier than non-smokers.
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It has long been hypothesised that higher smoking rates among psychosis sufferers could be explained by people seeking relief from boredom or distress, or self-medicating against the symptoms or side-effects of anti-psychotic medication.
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