Find that hard to believe. Thoughts?
It's not a controversial point. We know that people with schizophrenia smoke; they smoke more cigarettes than other smokers; they smoke more of each cigarette than other smokers; they inhale deeper than other smokers; they start smoking at a younger age.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK179276/pdf/Bookshelf_N...
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> Other disorders associated with cognitive and attentional impairment, such as schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), are characterized by a very high prevalence of smoking among those affected. It has been proposed that individuals with these disorders smoke in order to alleviate the symptoms of their disease, and a number of clinical trials using nicotine as a therapeutic agent have been conducted.
(I'm not cutting and pasting because PDF fucking sucks).
After university, I had to have one year of civil service, and I ended up in a structure which patients were mentally retarded and/or light psychiatric disorders.
We would often work outside, tending the garden, planting flowers and whatnot, and some of the patients used to smoke.
Some big honcho saw this and decided that it was not a good sight, seeing them work with a cigarette in their mouth; on the other hand, they would want to have a smoke every once in a while, so it was decided that it would be more dignified to have officially sanctioned cigarette breaks.
The results? well, as it was (by definition) a "cigarette break", everybody wanted one, so all of them started smoking....
