Posted on 06/08/2010 2:54:31 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Other people's smoke is bad for your lungs and bad for your heart, and new research suggests it could be bad for your mental health, too.
Researchers found that non-smokers exposed to a lot of secondhand smoke were 50 percent more likely to suffer from psychological distress than those not exposed to other people's smoke.
And their risk of being admitted to a psychiatric hospital over the next six years was nearly tripled (it was almost quadrupled for smokers).
So-called "passive smoking" is very common, Dr. Mark Hamer of University College London in the UK and colleagues note in the Archives of General Psychiatry. One US study found evidence of secondhand smoke in 60 percent of non-smokers.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Correlation is not causation. Maybe the mental health problems came from whatever stresses that caused the people around you to start smoking.
GUY: Mind (if I smoke)?
JERRY: No—go ahead—I second-hand smoke two packs a day.
Ahhhh, the wonderful aroma of a good cigar’s second hand smoke just makes me crazy with envy for the person’s choice of a great smoke...
No wonder there’s such LONG LONG lines at psychiatric hospitals (/sarcasm). Someone wants to increase taxes and they needed a biased study to support their agenda. “Mother is the necessity of invention.”-Anonymous (Me)
I know some people who “go mental” when they smell tobacco smoke.
I suspect that it’s more likely that smokers - a high percentage of whom are people with mental problems who are self-medicating with tobacco - are likely to be more closely involved and intertwined with people who share similar mental issues but don’t smoke.
Just think how brilliant Chesterton, Churchill, Einstein, Orwell, Tolkien, Twain, Van Gogh, Freud, C.S. Lewis and Thomas Edison MIGHT have been!
Now I’ve heard it all!
Only if you spend a lot of time worrying about it unreasonably.
“I suspect that it’s more likely that smokers - a high percentage of whom are people with mental problems who are self-medicating with tobacco....”
A high percentage of smokers are people with mental problems? Popping popcorn...with butter ;)
Perhaps you meant that a high percentage of people with mental problems use tobacco/smoke to self medicate.
I doubt if I would have been able to stop smoking were it not for a frequent hit of second hand smoke that helped me to wean myself off of cigs.
Right, denial is a river in Egypt. The fact is, smokers are twice as likely to come down with Alzheimers, so this research is consistent with that fact.
It’s just poision a lot of people are hooked on. With the invention of e cigs, why would anyone light a bonfire in front of their face anymore?
Do they really think the smoke is the cause of the Nico-Nazi's neurosis? LOLOL
I like that, may I barrow it, use it, send it around?
“University College London in the UK and colleagues”
We are still finding out where the global warming nuts ended up.
I know a number of anti-smokers who are for legalizing pot.....I have never understood that.....
as far as second hand smoke.....I really question any of these claims.....
Oh for goodness sakes!!!
On just one component you put in the air...
Hydrocarbons: Any of numerous organic compounds, such as benzene and methane, that contain only carbon and hydrogen.
Do you drop kids off at school, idle in the school loading zone while you wait? Do you drive through parking lots where people are walking to and from their cars? Do you drive through downtown streets where people are walking along the sidewalks? Do you second hand smoke in these places?
When you give up your car, you have room to talk.
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