Smoking and Mental Illness

E. Lasser, Karen; Wesley Boyd, J.; Woolhandler, Steffie; U. Himmelstein, David; McCormick, Danny; H. Bor, David

doi:10.1001/jama.284.20.2606

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Smoking and Mental Illness

Published in JAMA • Nov 22, 2000

Authors:

Karen E. Lasser

J. Wesley Boyd

Steffie Woolhandler

Abstract

CONTEXT: Studies of selected groups of persons with mental illness, such as those who are institutionalized or seen in mental health clinics, have reported rates of smoking to be higher than in persons without mental illness. However, recent population-based, nationally representative data are lacki...

Subject

Mental illness

Medicine

National Comorbidity Survey

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