New research shows smoking has deep psychological effects and may even cause schizophrenia. Is Big Tobacco doomed?
At St Patrick's University Hospital, the Dublin mental hospital founded by author Jonathan Swift, consultant psychiatrist Séamus Ó Ceallaigh had often noticed that the patients he treated for psychotic mental illnesses were heavy smokers. Like many doctors, he assumed the habit eased their distress.
"Someone who is experiencing psychosis, like people with schizophrenia, would describe smoking as having a calming or smoothing effect," said Ó Ceallaigh, director of the hospital's psychosis recovery programme.
Source: Gabrielle Monaghan, Irish independent, 19/07/15
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